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Pest defenses under weak selection exert a limited influence on the evolution of height growth and drought avoidance in marginal pine populations
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Data from: Genetic variation for thermal adaptation in a cosmopolitan stored product pest
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Data from: Leveraging satellite observations to reveal ecological drivers of pest densities across landscapes
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Urban tree pests can support biological control services in landscape shrubs
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Gene drives for vertebrate pest control: realistic spatial modelling of eradication probabilities and times for island mouse populations
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Data from: DNA metabarcoding for biodiversity monitoring in a national park: screening for invasive and pest species
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Data from: Attack and aggregation of a major squash pest: parsing the role of plant chemistry and beetle pheromones across spatial scales
<p>1. Successful management of insect crop pests requires an understanding of the cues and spatial scales at which they function to affect rates of attack of preferred and non-preferred host plants. A long-standing conceptual framework in insect-plant ecology posits that there is hierarchical structure spanning host location, acceptance, and attack that could be exploited for integrated pest management.</p> <p>2. We investigated how plant- and insect-derived chemical cues affect successive decisions of host choice in aggregating insects, and tested predictions in the Cucurbita pepo - Acalymma vittatum system. Acalymma vittatum is an aggregating specialist beetle pest that strongly prefers zucchini (C. p. pepo) to summer squash (C. p. ovifera), two independent domesticates of C. pepo. We hypothesized that subspecies-specific plant traits, especially volatile cues, interact with the male-produced aggregation pheromone to amplify beetle preference for C. p. pepo.</p> <p>3. Differential beetle attack of C. pepo subspecies in the field is not determined by plant traits that affect host finding or differential aggregation due to pheromones: across two years, beetles had strong density-dependent attraction to both subspecies when male beetles were feeding, and no interactions between plant volatiles and the male-produced pheromone were detected. In absence of male pheromone emission, beetles were equally unattracted to plants with or without beetle feeding.</p> <p>4. In contrast, plant traits that mediate insect acceptance appear to underlie differences in preference. At a local scale, beetles did not accept and emigrated from C. p. ovifera compared to C. p. pepo. Distinct volatile emissions were observed between subspecies, but further work is needed to identify if these volatiles promote emigration.</p> <p>5. Synthesis and applications: By dissecting pest preference during successive host choice decisions, we isolated a trait with implications for pest management. Beetles on cucurbits can be managed by employing cultivars with differential susceptibility (e.g. trap cropping), and the mechanistic knowledge presented here informs best practices and limitations for on-farm applications. More broadly, pest management in diversified cropping systems can be enhanced through understanding how plant preference gradients affect herbivore movement and behavior, and plant breeders can target traits to reduce herbivory in such systems.</p>
Identifying diagnostic genetic markers for a cryptic invasive agricultural pest: a test case using the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Insect pests destroy ~15% of all USA crops, resulting in losses of $15 billion annually. Thus, developing cheap, quick and reliable methods for detecting harmful species is critical to curtail insect damage and lessen economic impact. The apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a major invasive pest threatening the multibillion-dollar apple industry in the Pacific Northwest USA. The fly is also sympatric with a benign but morphologically similar and genetically closely related species, R. zephyria, which attacks non-commercial snowberry. Unambiguous species identification is essential due to a zero-infestation policy of apple maggot for fruit export. Mistaking R. zephyria for R. pomonella triggers unnecessary and costly quarantines, diverting valuable control resources. Here we develop and apply a relatively simple and cost-effective diagnostic approach using Illumina sequencing of double digest restriction-site associated DNA markers. We identified five informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and designed a diagnostic test based on agarose gel electrophoresis of restriction enzyme digested polymerase chain reaction amplification products (RFLPs) to distinguish fly species. We demonstrated the utility of this approach for immediate, one day species identification by scoring apple- and snowberry-infesting flies of known host plant identity, reared directly from 11 sites throughout Washington. However, if immediate diagnosis is not required, or hundreds to thousands of specimens must be assessed, then a direct Illumina-based sequencing strategy, similar to that used here for diagnostic SNP identification can be powerful and cost-effective. The genomic strategy we present is effective for R. pomonella and also transferable to many cryptic pests.
Data from: Ovary development and cold tolerance of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) in the central plains of Kansas, United States
Environmental challenges presented by temperature variation can be overcome through phenotypic plasticity in small invasive ectotherms. We tested the effect of thermal exposure to 21, 18, and 11°C throughout the whole life cycle of individuals, thermal exposure of adults reared at 25°C to 15 and 11°C for a 21-d period, and long (14:10 hr) and short (10:14 hr) photoperiod on ovary size and development in Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) cultured from a recently established population in Topeka, Kansas (United States). Examination of the response to temperature and photoperiod variation in this central plains population provides insight into the role of phenotypic plasticity in a climate that is warmer than regions in North America where D. suzukii was initially established. We found both low temperature and short photoperiod resulted in reduced ovary size and level of development. In particular, reduced ovary development was observed following exposure to 15°C, indicating that ovary development in females from the central plains population is more sensitive to lower temperature compared with populations examined from the northern United States and southern Canada. We also provide evidence that D. suzukii reared at 25°C are capable of short-term hardening when exposed to −6°C following 4°C acclimation, contrary to previous reports indicating flies reared at warm temperatures do not rapidly-cold harden. Our study highlights the central role of phenotypic plasticity in response to winter-like laboratory conditions and provides an important geographic comparison to previously published assessments of ovary development and short-term hardening survival response for D. suzukii collected in cooler climates.
Data from: Pest control potential of adjacent agri-environment schemes varies with crop type and is shaped by landscape context and within-field position
<ol> <li>Increasing natural pest control in agricultural fields is an important aim of ecological intensification. Combined effects of landscape context and local placement of agri-environmental schemes on natural pest control and within field distance functions of natural pest control agents have rarely been addressed but might affect the distribution of biocontrol providers. Importantly, it is currently unknown whether ecosystem services provided by adjacent agri-environmental schemes (AES) are consistent for different crop types during crop rotation.</li> <li>In this study, we assessed whether crop rotation from oilseed rape to cereals altered within-field distance functions of ground dwelling predators from adjacent agri-environmental fields along a gradient in landscape context. Additionally we recorded crop pests, predation rates, parasitoids as well as crop yields on a total of 30 study sites.</li> <li>Distance functions varied between trophic levels: Carabid richness decreased while densities of carabid beetles, staphylinid beetles as well as crop yields increased towards the field centres. Distance functions of parasitoids and pests were modulated by the amount of semi-natural habitat in the surrounding landscape, while the effects of adjacent AES were limited.</li> <li>Distance decay functions found for ground dwelling predators in oilseed rape in the previous year were not always present in cereals. Increasing distance to the field edge also increased effects of crop rotation on carabid beetle assemblages, indicating a source habitat function of field edges.</li> <li>Synthesis and applications<i>.</i> Distance functions of natural pest control are not universal and the effects of agri-environmental schemes (AES) in different adjacent crops during crop rotation vary and depends on ecological contrasts. A network of semi-natural habitats and spatially optimised AES habitats can benefit pest control in agricultural landscapes, but constraints as a result of crop type need to be addressed by annually targeted, spatially shifting AES schemes for different crops.</li> </ol> <div> </div>
Figure 10 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 10. Adult, habitus. Dynamis borassi (Fabricius): (A) male, lateral, note sexually dimorphic ventrally setose profemora; (B) female, lateral; (E) male, dorsal; (F) female, dorsal; (I) male, ventral; (J) female, ventral. Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus): (C) male, lateral, note sexually dimorphic dorsally setose rostrum; (D) female, lateral; (G) male, dorsal; (H) female, dorsal; (K) male, ventral; (L) female, ventral. Scale bars: 5 mm.
Figure 9 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 9. First instar larva of Dynamis borassi (Fabricius): (A) head capsule, dorsal; (B) detail of right antenna; (C) head capsule, ventral. Scale bars: A and C = 0.2 mm, B = 0.02 mm.
Figure 8 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 8. First instar larva. (A) Dynamis borassi (Fabricius), habitus dorsolateral; (B) Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus), habitus lateral. D. borassi: (C) head and pronotum, dorsal; (D) abdominal segments IV to VII, dorsal, showing egg bursters; (E) detail of egg burster; (F) terminal dorsal disc (abdominal tergites VIII and IX). Scale bars: A and B = 0.5 mm, D = 0.2 mm, E = 0.03 mm.
Figure 7 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 7. Larval abdominal apex showing posterior disc, dorsal: (A) Dynamis borassi (Fabricius); (B) Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus). Spiracles of D. borassi (external view, not at same scale): (C) thoracic; (D) abdominal I; (E) abdominal IV. (F) Thoracic spiracle and trachea of R. palmarum, seen from inside of body. (G, H) Spiracles and tracheal system of D. borassi, seen from inside of body: thoracic, abdominal IV. Abdominal spiracle VIII: (I) D. borassi; (J) R. palmarum. Scale bars: A and B = 2 mm, C and F-H = 0.2 mm, D and E = 0.1 mm, I and J = 0.5 mm.
Figure 6 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 6. Chaetotaxy of thorax and abdomen, mature larva, Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus). (A) Prothorax, mesothorax, metathorax and abdominal segment I. (B) Abdominal apex, segments VIII to X, caudal. Scale bars: A = 3 mm, B = 2 mm.
Figure 4 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 4. Larval mouthparts. Dynamis borassi (Fabricius): (A) epipharynx; (C-D, G-H) mandible in dorsal, outer, ventral and inner views. Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus): (B) epipharynx; (E-F, I-J) mandible in dorsal, outer, ventral and inner views. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.
Figure 3 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 3. Larval mouthparts. (A) Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus), clypeus and labrum; (B) Dynamis borassi (Fabricius), epipharynx; (C) R. palmarum, epipharynx. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.
Figure 2 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 2. Head of larva, anterodorsal: (A) Dynamis borassi (Fabricius); (B) Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus). (C) D. borassi, postoccipital membrane showing cervical sclerites; (D) R. palmarum, antenna, apical. Scale bars: A and B = 2 mm, C = 0.4 mm, D = 0.1 mm.
Figure 1 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 1. Habitus of mature larva (lateral, ventral, dorsal). (A-C) Dynamis borassi (Fabricius); (D-F) Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus). Scale bars: 5 mm.
Figure 5 in Comparative morphology of the larvae of the palm weevils Dynamis borassi (Fabricius) and Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae): Two major pests of peach palms in the Neotropics
Figure 5. Maxillae and labium of larva. Dynamis borassi (Fabricius): (A) ventral; (C) dorsal; (E) detail of mala, dorsal. Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus): (B) ventral; (D) dorsal; (F) detail of mala, dorsal; (G) detail of dorsal malar setae; (H) detail of ventral malar setae; (I) detail of maxillary palp. Scale bars: A-D = 1 mm, E and F = 0.2 mm, G and I = 0.1 mm, H = 0.2 mm.
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