The Influence of Aphid-Induced Plant Volatiles on Ladybird Beetle Searching Behavior

Ninkovic, Velemir; Abassi, S. Al; Pettersson, Jan

doi:10.1006/bcon.2001.0935

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“…The olfactory preference of C. septempunctata males and females to volatiles from touched and untouched maize and bean plants was tested using a two-arm olfactometer consisting of an arena (6 9 6 cm) with two conical, extended arms (arm length 7 cm) (Ninkovic et al 2001;Glinwood et al 2009) with an airflow of 250 ml min -1 . Ladybirds were randomly collected from culture 24 h before each experiment and separated by sex according to Baungaard (1980).…”

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“…An adult ladybird was placed in the central zone of the olfactometer and, after a 10-min acclimation period, its position was registered 10 times at 2-min intervals. The 2-min intervals are long enough to permit an adult ladybird to move from one end of the arena to the other (Ninkovic et al 2001). For this purpose, 22 and 27 male and female ladybirds, respectively, were tested.…”

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Plant response to touch affects the behaviour of aphids and ladybirds

Marković

Glinwood

Olsson

et al. 2014

Arthropod-Plant Interactions

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Touching between leaves of the same plant and/or by neighbouring plants is one of the most common mechanical stimuli to which an individual plant has to respond on a daily basis. The possible ecological implications of a plant's response to touch on plant-insect interactions have not been explicitly investigated. We examined whether plant response to 1 min daily touching over a period of 6 days affects host plant acceptance by the bird cherry-oat aphid Rhopalosiphum padi L. on maize and by the black bean aphid Aphis fabae Scop. on bean, as well as olfactory preference of an aphid predator, seven-spotted ladybird Coccinella septempunctata L. Maize plants responded to touch with significant reduction in plant height, total plant biomass, leaf weight, leaf surface, shoot/ root ratio and specific leaf area (SLA), while bean plants responded with reduced stem height and reduced SLA. Both aphid species showed significantly reduced acceptance of touched plants compared with untouched plants. The two aphid species and male and female ladybirds preferred volatiles from untouched plants over those from touched plants. Volatiles in the headspace of touched and untouched plants were collected and identified. Stepwise discriminant analyses identified (E)-nerolidol and (E)-bcaryophyllene in maize and 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one and an unidentified sesquiterpene in bean as the best discriminating compounds in the volatile profiles of touched plants. Our study suggests that touch-induced changes in plants can potentially affect host plant selection by aphids and habitat searching by ladybirds. Thus, touch-induced changes in plants may have significant effects at higher trophic levels.

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Plant response to touch affects the behaviour of aphids and ladybirds

Marković

Glinwood

Olsson

et al. 2014

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“…Michaud & Qureshi, 2005), laboratory studies have often failed to show attraction to undamaged plants. For example, the ladybird (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) species Coccinella septempunctata L. (Ninkovic et al, 2001) and Adalia bipunctata (L.) (Francis et al, 2004), and the hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus (DeGeer) (Diptera: Syrphidae) (Francis et al, 2005b) were not attracted to odours from their (undamaged) host plant. An exception is Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) that is attracted to plant volatiles .…”

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Chemical cues mediating aphid location by natural enemies

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Michaud³

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Eur. J. Entomol.

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Abstract. There is increasing evidence that chemical cues play a pivotal role in host selection by the natural enemies of aphids. We use Vinson's (1976) division of the host selection process into habitat location, host location and host acceptance for both parasitoids and predators and review what is known about the role of semiochemicals in aphid selection by natural enemies. For habitat location (i.e. detection of the host plant), volatiles emitted by plants after aphid attack have been described for a number of plant-aphid interactions. These synomones indicate not only the presence of an aphid host plant to the predator or parasitoid, but also the presence of aphids. Volatiles emitted from undamaged host plants are often attractive to aphid parasitoids, but less so for predators. Host location by the natural enemy on the food plant is guided by semiochemicals that mostly originate from the aphids, in particular aphid alarm pheromone, honeydew, or the smell of the aphid itself. Host acceptance is guided by contact chemicals for both predators and parasitoids. In parasitoids, host recognition may be based on visual cues or on contact chemicals on the aphid's cuticle, whereas host acceptance is ultimately based on as yet unknown substances within the aphid's hemolymph. While it appears that many predators and parasitoids are attracted to the same semiochemicals, synergistic and antagonistic interactions among chemical substances have only rarely been investigated. More research into model systems is needed, not only to identify important semiochemicals, but also to determine their range of attraction. Recent progress in the development of analytical techniques has created new opportunities to improve our understanding of the chemical ecology of aphid-natural enemy interactions in the coming years.

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“…These two methodological approaches have been used widely in the identification of lady beetle-related semiochemicals (Zhu et al 1999;Al Abassi et al 2000;Acar et al 2001;Francis et al 2001Francis et al , 2004Ninkovic et al 2001). …”

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Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses of the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyridis Pallas, to Sesquiterpene Semiochemicals

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The role of two volatile sesquiterpenes, (E)-β-farnesene and (−)-β-caryophyllene, in the chemical ecology of the multicolored Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis Pallas, was investigated by using both electrophysiological and behavioral techniques. (E)-β-Farnesene is the major component of the alarm pheromone of most aphid species, which are preyed on by H. axyridis. (−)-β-Caryophyllene was previously isolated from the headspace volatiles above overwintering and aggregated H. axyridis females. These sesquiterpenes elicited significant electroantennogram (EAG) activity from both H. axyridis male and female antennae. In a four-arm olfactometer, male and female H. axyridis were highly attracted toward (E)-β-farnesene, whereas only males were attracted to (−)-β-caryophyllene. In a bioassay technique that used a passively ventilated plastic box, both male and female H. axyridis aggregated in the (−)-β-caryophyllene-treated side of the box. These results support the potential usefulness of (E)-β-farnesene and (−)-β-caryophyllene in push-pull strategies that use H. axyridis as a biological control agent in aphid-infested sites or to control this new urban pest in residential structures.

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The Influence of Aphid-Induced Plant Volatiles on Ladybird Beetle Searching Behavior

Cited by 132 publications

References 26 publications

Plant response to touch affects the behaviour of aphids and ladybirds

Plant response to touch affects the behaviour of aphids and ladybirds

Chemical cues mediating aphid location by natural enemies

Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses of the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyridis Pallas, to Sesquiterpene Semiochemicals

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