Oviposition Preference and Larval Performance of &lt;I&gt;Anoplophora glabripennis&lt;/I&gt; (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Four Eastern North American Hardwood Tree Species

Morewood, W. D.; Neiner, P.R.; McNeil, James; Sellmer, James C.; Hoover, Kelli

doi:10.1603/0046-225x-32.5.1028

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“…The steps that occur during host selection by bark beetles include: (1) searching (landing on a tree trunk), (2) contact evaluation (exploratory walking on the bark, testing, biting, and digging), and lastly (3) the acceptance step (continued feeding, tunnel elongation after host diagnosis, mating and oviposition, and progeny development) (Schoonhoven et al 1998;Belmain et al 2002;Morewood et al 2003). It is known that male P. quercivorus are involved in the searching and contact evaluation steps (Yamasaki and Futai 2008), while female beetles participate in the acceptance steps .…”

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Types of frass produced by the ambrosia beetlePlatypus quercivorusduring gallery construction, and host suitability of five tree species for the beetle

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Journal of Forest Research

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We studied the biology of the ambrosia beetle Platypus quercivorus in the logs of five tree species to determine: (1) the relationship between the amount of frass produced by beetles and tunnel length, (2) the relationship between frass shape and the morphological characteristics of P. quercivorus mouthparts, and (3) the suitability of five tree species for P. quercivorus reproduction. Five logs each from healthy Quercus crispula, Q. serrata, Castanea crenata, Sorbus japonica, and Cryptomeria japonica trees were used in this experiment. The results showed that there was a linear relationship between the amount of frass and tunnel length. Whenever powdery frass was produced, larvae were found in the gallery in the log, while fibrous frass was present only in galleries that contained just adults. The mouthparts of adults were completely sclerotized, which likely accounts for the fibrous frass production. Host preference of P. quercivorus was examined at two stages using five tree species. The first stage is digging initiation, which concerns male preference for digging a tunnel. More holes were made by males on S. japonica and Q. serrata logs, while fewer holes were made on C. japonica logs. The second stage is characterized by female orientation, mating, and progeny development. Platypus quercivorus could complete its lifecycle only in the two Quercus spp.

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Types of frass produced by the ambrosia beetlePlatypus quercivorusduring gallery construction, and host suitability of five tree species for the beetle

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Journal of Forest Research

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“…2), larval performance, and traits potentially associated with these measures of plant defense (twig diameter and leaf nitrogen content). Because the correspondence between insect preference and plant defense can have critical implications for invasion biology (17)(18)(19), oviposition preferences of P. viburni were also measured for the 16 Viburnum species used in the study.…”

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Evolutionary history predicts plant defense against an invasive pest

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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It has long been hypothesized that invasive pests may be facilitated by the evolutionary naïveté of their new hosts, but this prediction has never been examined in a phylogenetic framework. To address the hypothesis, we have been studying the invasive viburnum leaf beetle (Pyrrhalta viburni), which is decimating North American native species of Viburnum, a clade of worldwide importance as understory shrubs and ornamentals. In a phylogenetic field experiment using 16 species of Viburnum, we show that old-world Viburnum species that evolved in the presence of Pyrrhalta beetles mount a massive defensive wound response that crushes eggs of the pest insect; in contrast, naïve North American species that share no evolutionary history with Pyrrhalta beetles show a markedly lower response. This convergent continental difference in the defensive response of Viburnum spp. against insect oviposition contrasts with little difference in the quality of leaves for beetle larvae. Females show strong oviposition preferences that correspond with larval performance regardless of continental origin, which has facilitated colonization of susceptible North American species. Thus, although much attention has been paid to escape from enemies as a factor in the establishment and spread of nonnative organisms, the colonization of undefended resources seems to play a major role in the success of invasive species such as the viburnum leaf beetle.defense-free space | invasion ecology | phylogenetic ecology | preference-performance relationship T he establishment and spread of nonnative pests in novel environments has often been viewed as a result of escape from natural enemies present in the native range (1-3), and this topdown view is supported by the success of classical biological control programs against a number of invasive pests (4-6). Nonetheless, there is growing evidence that a lack of defenses in evolutionarily naïve hosts creates opportunities for exotic pests (7-10). For example, because herbivores are potent agents of natural selection for plant defense (11)(12)(13)(14), evolutionarily naïve plants may be particularly susceptible to invasive pest insects. Previous observations of island floras have indicated low defense and high susceptibility of naïve plants (15, 16), but this pattern has not been rigorously examined in an evolutionary framework. In particular, this bottomup notion emphasizes past evolutionary ecology of plant-herbivore interactions as being critical for community stability.We tested the hypothesis that a lack of shared evolutionary history between plants and herbivores creates defense-free space, facilitating pest invasions. In a phylogenetically controlled field experiment with 16 species of North American and Eurasian Viburnum spp. (Adoxaceae, Dipsacales) (Fig. 1), we tested for the impact of plant continental origin, a proxy for shared evolutionary history with specific herbivores, on defense against the Eurasian Pyrrhalta viburni, an emerging invasive pest in North America. Theory predicts that plant defe...

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“…Individuals of the same species reared from the same bait may represent offspring of a single female and should be counted as only a single host record to avoid pseudoreplication. Similarly, the host ranges may have been wider if more species of wood had been exposed (Morewood et al 2003). However, even given the limitations of the data, there is some evidence for a degree of host specificity for those species that were recorded in numbers greater than 10, because they all emerged from a single host species and all from at least three individual baits.…”

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Patterns of Tree Species Usage by Long-Horned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Fiji

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Oviposition Preference and Larval Performance of <I>Anoplophora glabripennis</I> (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Four Eastern North American Hardwood Tree Species

Cited by 46 publications

References 27 publications

Types of frass produced by the ambrosia beetlePlatypus quercivorusduring gallery construction, and host suitability of five tree species for the beetle

Types of frass produced by the ambrosia beetlePlatypus quercivorusduring gallery construction, and host suitability of five tree species for the beetle

Evolutionary history predicts plant defense against an invasive pest

Patterns of Tree Species Usage by Long-Horned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Fiji

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