Searching at different spatial scales: the foraging behaviour of the aphid parasitoid Aphidius rosae in rose bushes
Searching at different spatial scales: the foraging behaviour of the aphid parasitoid Aphidius rosae in rose bushes
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不同空间尺度的搜索:寄生蚜虫Aphidius rosae在玫瑰丛中的觅食行为
DOI:
10.1007/bf00317144
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发表时间:
1994
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影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
W. Völkl
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作者:
W. Völkl
The searching patterns of the aphid parasitoid Aphidius rosae were analysed at three different spatial scales: leaves, shoots and bushes. Parasitoid females searched aphid-infested leaves and shoots intensively and remained on average more than twice as long on infested than on uninfested shoots. Patch times and oviposition numbers per shoot were highly variable both between females and for different shoot visits within females. However, at the shoot and bush level low oviposition numbers were generally found. The time spent on different behavioural patterns (searching, resting, feeding, host handling) changed significantly during subsequent shoot visits of individual females but oviposition success was not influenced by this change. Parasitoids searched individual leaves and shoots mainly by walking, while moving between shoots occurred exclusively by flight. The travel time between shoots (i.e. flight time) accounted for less than 1% of the residence time in a bush. At the bush level foraging was characterized by a high ability to localize infested shoots and consequently little time was wasted in searching on uninfested shoots. The pattern of resource exploitation of individual females was consistent with the distribution of A. rosae larvae in field samples taken from individual rose bushes.