Trichomes and spider-mite webbing protect predatory mite eggs from intraguild predation
Trichomes and spider-mite webbing protect predatory mite eggs from intraguild predation
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毛状体和蜘蛛螨网保护捕食性螨虫卵免受行会内的捕食
DOI:
10.1007/s004420000462
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发表时间:
2000
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影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
G. English
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作者:
A. Roda;J. Nyrop;M. Dicke;G. English
Predaceous arthropods are frequently more abundant on plants with leaves that are pubescent or bear domatia than on plants with glabrous leaves. We explored the hypothesis that for some predatory mites this is because pubescence affords protection from intraguild predation. In laboratory experiments, we tested whether apple leaf pubescence protectedTyphlodromus pyrieggs from predation by western flower thrips,Frankliniella occidentalis.To investigate the effect of pubescence further, we added cotton fibers to trichome-free leaves. We also determined whether webbing produced byTetranychus urticaeprotectedPhytoseiulus persimiliseggs from predation byF. occidentalis.Predation by thrips onT. pyrieggs oviposited on field-collected pubescent "Erwin Bauer" apple leaves was significantly less than on glabrous "Crittenden" apple leaves. Phytoseiid eggs oviposited in the cotton fibers were preyed upon significantly less than those on the trichome-free bean disk. Increasing the cotton fiber density from 5 to 20 fibers only slightly further reduced predation by thrips onT. pyrieggs. Thrips fed upon significantly fewerP. persimiliseggs oviposited inTe. urticaewebbing than eggs oviposited on a surface that differed only in the absence ofTe. urticaeweb. We conclude that a complex leaf topography reduces intensity of intraguild predation in this system.