Radek Michalko, Klaus Birkhofer, Michael Traugott, Mattias Jonsson
{"title":"Negative intraguild interactions drive niche variation in arthropod predators","authors":"Radek Michalko, Klaus Birkhofer, Michael Traugott, Mattias Jonsson","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2282","url":null,"abstract":"The niche variation hypothesis states that the population niche width expands with increasing interindividual differences in prey utilization (i.e., individual dietary specialization). The main ecological drivers forming this relationship include a) ecological opportunity, b) food limitation and exploitative competition, and c) intraguild interference. Only a limited number of empirical studies have tested the impact of these drivers on the niche variation–width relationship and focused only on vertebrates. Using molecular gut content analysis, we investigated how prey diversity (proxy for ecological opportunity), prey abundance (proxy for exploitative competition / food-limitation), and activity density of guild members (proxy for intraguild interference) affect the short-term individual dietary specialization and consequently the population niche width in local communities of 13 species of predatory beetles and spiders. The study took place in 10 spring barley fields in Sweden in 2011. We found that the niche variation and consequently the average population niche width of the species in the predator community decreased with prey abundance but increased with activity density of guild members. The results indicate that intraguild interference and exploitative competition / food limitation increased dietary variation. The increased diet variation led to the observed population diet expansion. Our results support the niche variation hypothesis and, in contrast to the traditional view, show that negative intraguild interactions may act as a diversifying force.","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141507639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research toward enhancing integrated management of Tuta absoluta, an ongoing invasive threat in Afro-Eurasia","authors":"Peng Han, Yibo Zhang, Judit Arnó, Ramzi Mansour","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2647","url":null,"abstract":"This is the editorial to Entomologia Generalis 44/2, Special issue Tuta absoluta.","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141060095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Khasan Ismoilov, Ming-hui Wang, Hao Li, Hao-tian Liu, C. Rodriguez‐Saona, Zhao-zhi Lu, Coline C. Jaworski, Peng Han
{"title":"Opportunistic cannibalism of the South American tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta","authors":"Khasan Ismoilov, Ming-hui Wang, Hao Li, Hao-tian Liu, C. Rodriguez‐Saona, Zhao-zhi Lu, Coline C. Jaworski, Peng Han","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141104237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming-hui Wang, Khasan Ismoilov, Wan-xue Liu, Ming Bai, Xiao-shuan Bai, Bin Chen, Hao-liang Chen, Hong-song Chen, Yong-cheng Dong, Kui Fang, Fu-rong Gui, Guo-Hua Huang, Chun-mei Jiang, Hong-bo Jiang, Xiao-wei Li, Chen Luo, Chen Luo, Zhao-zhi Lu, Yao-bin Lu, De-ying Ma, De-qiang Pu, Yanyan Qu, Wen Sang, Li-mei Song, Xiao Sun, Yuan-xing Sun, Bin Wan, Xin-pu Wang, Wen-jia Yang, Xue-qing Yang, Feng-luan Yao, Zheng-pei Ye, Li-yun Zhang, Xiao-ming Zhang, Ye Zhang, Chen-chen Zhao, Qiong Zhou, Wen-wu Zhou, Wen-ya Zhu, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Antonio Biondi, Coline.C. Jaworski, Yibo Zhang, Nicolas Desneux, Peng Han
{"title":"Tuta absoluta management in China: progress and prospects","authors":"Ming-hui Wang, Khasan Ismoilov, Wan-xue Liu, Ming Bai, Xiao-shuan Bai, Bin Chen, Hao-liang Chen, Hong-song Chen, Yong-cheng Dong, Kui Fang, Fu-rong Gui, Guo-Hua Huang, Chun-mei Jiang, Hong-bo Jiang, Xiao-wei Li, Chen Luo, Chen Luo, Zhao-zhi Lu, Yao-bin Lu, De-ying Ma, De-qiang Pu, Yanyan Qu, Wen Sang, Li-mei Song, Xiao Sun, Yuan-xing Sun, Bin Wan, Xin-pu Wang, Wen-jia Yang, Xue-qing Yang, Feng-luan Yao, Zheng-pei Ye, Li-yun Zhang, Xiao-ming Zhang, Ye Zhang, Chen-chen Zhao, Qiong Zhou, Wen-wu Zhou, Wen-ya Zhu, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Antonio Biondi, Coline.C. Jaworski, Yibo Zhang, Nicolas Desneux, Peng Han","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2362","url":null,"abstract":"The South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), has invaded most Afro-Eurasian countries. Since its first detection in China in late 2017, this pest has been now present in nearly 20 provinces/prefectures in China and is threating tomato and other Solanaceous crops such as potato, eggplants, and tobacco. Here, we provide a timely review on the current distribution, damage, management, and research in China. A standard survey form was designed and 30 answered surveys from 25 provinces have been received. The data showed that the damage has been witnessed in most of the regions despite that the severities vary among the regions. The management is chemical-control biased, and more efforts are needed to increase the adoption of non-chemical alternatives in the Integrated Pest Management packages. An Integrated Pest Management (IPM) package called “CAMEFA” was developed and demonstrated in Yunnan and Xinjiang, the two earliest regions for the invasion. Yet, the adoption by local growers is still limited. Besides T. absoluta, we suggest a multi-pest approach by combing IPM tactics coping with other major insect pests sharing the crop. Lastly, international projects are deemed to serve as a key lever for promoting IPM of T. absoluta and other invasive insect pests.","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141060135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farman Ullah, Ali Güncan, Hina Gul, Muhammad Hafeez, Shuxing Zhou, Yaru Wang, Zhijun Zhang, Jun Huang, Hamed A. Ghramh, Wenchao Guo, Kaiyun Fu, Xiaowei Li, Nicolas Desneux, Yaobin Lu
{"title":"Spinosad-induced intergenerational sublethal effects on Tuta absoluta: biological traits and related genes expressions","authors":"Farman Ullah, Ali Güncan, Hina Gul, Muhammad Hafeez, Shuxing Zhou, Yaru Wang, Zhijun Zhang, Jun Huang, Hamed A. Ghramh, Wenchao Guo, Kaiyun Fu, Xiaowei Li, Nicolas Desneux, Yaobin Lu","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2452","url":null,"abstract":"The South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is considered one of the most economically important invasive pests that causes severe damage to tomato crops. The biopesticide spinosad is widely used for controlling T. absoluta. This study aimed to investigate the spinosad-induced intergenerational sublethal effects on T. absoluta. Results showed that spinosad exhibited high toxicity against 3rd instar T. absoluta with the LC50 of 0.04 mg L-1 after 72 h exposure. The LC10 and LC30 of spinosad significantly decreased the durations of various developmental stages and some reproductive parameters of parental (F0) T. absoluta compared to control. The developmental durations, survival rate, reproduction and life table parameters (intrinsic rate of increase, r; finite rate of increase, λ; net reproductive rate, R 0; and oviposition days, Od ) were significantly decreased in the progeny generations (F1 and F2) following F0 exposure to the LC10 and LC30 of spinosad as compared to the control group. Additionally, the mRNA expression levels of development and reproduction related genes such as Vg, VgR, and JHBP were down-regulated in parental and progeny generations at both spinosad treatments as compared to control treatment. The resistance related cytochrome P450 genes CYP321C40 and CYP6AW1, followed by CYP4M116, CYP9A307v2, CYP15C1, CYP339A1, and CYP6AB327 were up-regulated at spinosad-treated groups in the parental and progeny generations of T. absoluta as compared to control. Overall, these results showed that although spinosad exhibited high toxicity and induces intergenerational sublethal effects on the parental and progeny generations, the indiscriminate and long-term application might causes resistance development in of T. absoluta.","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140834006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yan Jin, Jing Wang, Dao-Ling Huang, Meng-Zhu Shi, Hsin Chi, Elahe Rostami, Aurang Kavousi, Jian-Wei Fu
{"title":"Comparative demography of group- and individually-reared life tables of papaya mealybug with an innovative life table analysis for species in which females and males have a different number of stages","authors":"Yan Jin, Jing Wang, Dao-Ling Huang, Meng-Zhu Shi, Hsin Chi, Elahe Rostami, Aurang Kavousi, Jian-Wei Fu","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2332","url":null,"abstract":"The life table data of papaya mealybug, Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), on the jatropha, Jatropha integerrima (Euphorbiaceae), were collected using individually- and group-rearing and analyzed by using the age-stage, two-sex life table. Because the male individuals have six stages while the female individuals have only five stages, a new method was developed for a correct description of life stages and life table analysis. In general, the developmental durations of individually-reared insects were significantly longer than those of group-reared insects. Although the mean fecundity (F = 167.84 eggs/female) and the net reproductive rate (R0 = 62.10 offspring) of the individually-reared cohort were significantly higher than those of group-reared cohort (F = 66.5 eggs/female and R0 = 18.62 offspring), there were no significant differences in the population growth rates, i.e., intrinsic rate of increase r and finite rate of increase λ. Because the age variable x is an exponent in the Euler-Lotka equation, the first reproductive age and total preoviposition period are important factors in the determining the value of population growth rates. The life table data were used to simulate the population growth and timing of the control. Our results demonstrated that for group-lived insects like papaya mealybug, life table data collected using group-reared cohort is a better option for simulating pest population growth and management than data from individually-reared cohort.","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140886960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniele Bevacqua, Andrea Coppola, Renato Casagrandi
{"title":"An ecological model to analyze and control the dynamics of the leafminer pest Tuta absoluta on tomato, Solanum lycopersicum","authors":"Daniele Bevacqua, Andrea Coppola, Renato Casagrandi","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2316","url":null,"abstract":"The South American insect Tuta absoluta is a significant leaf-mining pest for tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum). In the last fifteen years, it has invaded and rapidly expanded across most European and African countries. This poses increasing threats to key tomato-growing regions worldwide. Despite the global significance of crop damages caused by T. absoluta, existing models have primarily focused on the developmental growth at the individual level, with limited consideration for population and community-level interactions, especially the plant-pest relationship. Here we introduce and discuss an ecological, process-based, mathematical model that accounts for the interdependent dynamics between a population of the herbivorous insect and the tomato plants it feeds on. The model explicitly integrates the impacts of water and nutrients availability, as well as temperature, on the growth of both insect and plant populations. After calibrating the model using empirical data, we find that its simulations can replicate different observed patterns. Leveraging the mechanistic nature of our approach, we analyze the combined effects of various temperature, fertilization/irrigation (fertigation) and biocontrol scenarios on (i) crop growth and (ii) the overall health of the production system. This enables us to identify knowledge gaps and to discuss the effectiveness and trade-offs associated with different management policies.","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140833967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luana Mesak, Karolina Gomes de Figueiredo, Marianne Araújo Soares, Luis Clepf Passos, Mirian Nunes Morales, Nathan John Lopes, Geraldo Andrade Carvalho
{"title":"Transgenerational effects of diamide insecticides on Macrolophus basicornis, a predator of Tuta absoluta","authors":"Luana Mesak, Karolina Gomes de Figueiredo, Marianne Araújo Soares, Luis Clepf Passos, Mirian Nunes Morales, Nathan John Lopes, Geraldo Andrade Carvalho","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140671597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of resistance in wild tomato accessions to the whitefly Bemisia tabaci and the invasive tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta","authors":"Sunil Kumaraswamy, Paola Sotelo-Cardona, Aparna Shivanna, Muthugounder Mohan, Ramasamy Srinivasan","doi":"10.1127/entomologia/2024/2368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2024/2368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11728,"journal":{"name":"Entomologia Generalis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140668809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}