Flexible oviposition behavior in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata) and its implications for offspring survival

Reguera, Piedad; Gomendio, Montserrat

doi:10.1093/beheco/13.1.70

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“…Many oviparous species avoid oviposition in habitats with high risk of predation to their larvae, including mosquitoes Reguera and Gomendio 2002;Rieger et al 2004;Vonesh and Blaustein 2010), anurans (Binckley and Resetarits 2002;Rieger et al 2004), terrestrial bugs (Reguera and Gomendio 2002) and mites (Choh and Takabayashi 2010). However, exclusive avoidance of habitats in which a larval predator is present could lead to overcrowding of predator-free habitats, and could result in negative density-dependent effects on offspring fitness.…”

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Modelling evolutionarily stable strategies in oviposition site selection, with varying risks of predation and intraspecific competition

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Many ovipositing mosquitoes, as well as other species, can detect biotic factors that affect fitness. However, a female mosquito seeking a high quality oviposition site (e.g. one with low risk of predation and competition to her progeny) must often balance the competing risk of increasing probability of mortality to herself while she continues to search, against increased probability of finding a high quality site. Such oviposition site selection may affect adult population size. We examined a female mosquito's expected strategy of oviposition site selection under conditions of varying predator prevalence and adult mortality risk, by combining a detailed structured population model with a Markov chain implementation of the adult behavioural process. We used parameter values from the specific mosquito-predator system, Culiseta longiareolata-Notonecta maculata, although the overall results can be generalised to many mosquito species. Our model finds the evolutionarily stable strategy of oviposition site selection for different parameter combinations. Our model predicts that oviposition strategy does not vary smoothly with varying environmental risk of adult mortality, but that certain oviposition strategies become unstable at some parameter values. Mosquitoes will distribute their reproductive effort between breeding sites of varying predation risk only when adult mortality is low or larval competition high. Our model predicts that females will continue searching for predator-free pools, rather than oviposit in the first site encountered, regardless of the risk of mortality to the adult. The ecological basis for a reproductive strategy with alternative behaviours is important for understanding the effect of biotic factors on the population dynamics of Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (mosquitoes, and for the development of biological control strategies, such as the dissemination of predator-cue chemicals.

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“…Numerous arthropod and amphibian species adopt a mixed oviposition strategy, including mosquitoes , golden egg bugs (Reguera and Gomendio 2002), treefrogs (Binckley and Resetarits 2002), cherrybugs (Nakajima and Fujisaki 2010), and others, reviewed in Mayhew (1997).…”

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Modelling evolutionarily stable strategies in oviposition site selection, with varying risks of predation and intraspecific competition

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“…This prediction holds even if this behaviour entails a risk to the parents themselves, provided that it increases their overall reproductive success (Williams 1966;Trivers 1974;Bell 1980). Parents can protect their oVspring by directly defending their nesting or oviposition sites from the attack of predators (Montgomerie and Weatherhead 1988;Koskela et al 2000;Magalhaes et al 2005a), and/or by actively searching for predator-free patches for nesting and egg laying (Murphy 2003a;2003b;Resetarits 2002, 2003;Eitam and Blaustein 2004;Mokany and Shine 2003;Nomikou et al 2003;Faraji et al 2002;Kessler and Baldwin 2002;Angelon and Petranka 2002;Reguera and Gomendio 2002;Resetarits 2001;Stav et al 1999;Mappes and Kaitala 1995).…”

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Predators induce egg retention in prey

Montserrat

Bas²,

Magalhães

et al. 2006

Oecologia

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To prevent predation on their eggs, prey often avoid patches occupied by predators. As a result, they need to delay oviposition until they reach predator-free patches. Because many species allocate energy to egg production in a continuous fashion, it is not clear what kind of mechanism prey use to delay oviposition. We used females of the phytoseiid mite Neoseiulus cucumeris to study these mechanisms. Females were placed in patches with pollen, a food source they use for egg production, and they were exposed to another phytoseiid mite, Iphiseius degenerans, which is an intraguild predator of N. cucumeris juveniles. We found that the oviposition of N. cucumeris females on patches with the predator was lower than on patches without the predator. Cues left by the intraguild predator were not sufficient to elicit such behaviour. Females of N. cucumeris reduced oviposition when exposed to the predator by retaining the egg inside their body, resulting in a lower developmental rate once these eggs were laid. Hence, females are capable of retaining eggs, but the development of these eggs continues inside the mother's body. In this way, females gain some time to search for less risky oviposition sites.

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“…To protect offspring against egg parasitoids, eggs are usually hidden to lower parasitoid efficiency in the search for a host (Godfray, 1994;Al-Wahaibi and Walker, 2000a, b;Udayagiri and Welter, 2000). In their search for enemy-free spaces, insects have developed diverse strategies (Waage and Greathead, 1986;Gross, 1993;Dicke and Grostal, 2001), and embedding eggs into vegetal tissues is likely to interfere with host recognition by parasitoids Udayagiri and Welter, 2000;Reguera and Gomendio, 2002;Garcia-Gonzalez and Gomendio, 2003).…”

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“…Females of phytophagous insects may therefore accept oviposition sites on host plants that are not necessarily the most suitable for larvaeÕs optimal growth, but instead are unsuitable in the context of host location and exploitation by parasitoids (e.g. Denno et al, 1990;Bjo¨rkman et al, 1997;Al-Wahaibi and Walker, 2000a, b;Vos et al, 2001;Reguera and Gomendio, 2002). The females of the lepidopteran diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella L.; Plutellidae), a moth which develops on crucifers in agricultural systems, lay more eggs on slightly fertilized plants on which larval growth and survival are reduced (Fox and Eisenbach, 1992).…”

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Oviposition Sites of the Cypress Seed Bug Orsillus maculatus and Response of the Egg Parasitoid Telenomus gr. Floridanus

Rouault¹,

Battisti

Roques³

2006

Biocontrol

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Phytophagous insects have many strategies to escape parasitoids, for example by hiding eggs into plant tissues, but oviposition in holes made by another insect is rather scarce. The cypress seed bug Orsillus maculatus Fieber (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) is strictly dependent on the availability of cones of Cupressus sempervirens L. to oviposit. Females lay eggs either in exit holes cut through the cone scale by emerging adults of the cypress seed chalcid, Megastigmus wachtli Seitner (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), or on the inner side of scales of partly open cones. A recently discovered egg parasitoid belonging to the genus Telenomus has been shown to attack bug eggs in both oviposition sites. In this paper we investigated the parasitoid performance according to oviposition sites. Field samplings were conducted in two evergreen cypress orchards located in the south of France. The distribution and condition of the egg patches were compared between the two locations and oviposition sites. Seed bugs preferred to oviposit in emergence holes of M. wachtli, and parasitoid performance was higher in eggs laid on cone scales. The chalcid emergence holes seemed to ensure bug eggs with enemy-free space. Oviposition site selection could be an adaptive strategy to escape parasitoid attack.

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Flexible oviposition behavior in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata) and its implications for offspring survival

Cited by 28 publications

References 46 publications

Modelling evolutionarily stable strategies in oviposition site selection, with varying risks of predation and intraspecific competition

Modelling evolutionarily stable strategies in oviposition site selection, with varying risks of predation and intraspecific competition

Predators induce egg retention in prey

Oviposition Sites of the Cypress Seed Bug Orsillus maculatus and Response of the Egg Parasitoid Telenomus gr. Floridanus

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