The Effect of Diet Interacting With Temperature on the Development Rate of a Noctuidae Quinoa Pest

Autor: Janneth Yujra Pari, Reinaldo Quispe-Tarqui, Franz Callizaya Condori, François Rebaudo
Přispěvatelé: Evolution, génomes, comportement et écologie (EGCE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Pública de El Alto (UPEA)
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Environmental Entomology
Environmental Entomology, Entomological Society of America, 2021, 3 (50), pp.685-691
Environmental Entomology, 2021, 50 (3), pp.685-691
ISSN: 1938-2936
0046-225X
Popis: The quinoa pest Copitarsia incommoda (Walker, Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a cause of significant damage, and it is thus critical for Andean countries to have access to phenological models to maintain production and food safety. These models are key components in pest control strategies in the context of global warming and in the development of sustainable production integrating agroecological concepts. Phenological models are mainly based on outlining the relationship between temperature and development rate. In this study, we investigated the combined effect of protein content within the diet (artificial diet; artificial diet with −20% protein; artificial diet with +20% protein; natural quinoa diet) and temperature (12, 16.9, 19.5, 22.7, 24.6°C) as drivers of the development rate. Our study supports the literature, since temperature was found to be the main driver of the development rate. It highlights the significant role played by protein content and its interaction with temperature (significant effects of temperature, diet, and diet:temperature on development time using GLMs for all foraging life stages). We discuss the implications of such drivers of the development rate for implementing and applying phenological models that may benefit from including factors other than temperature. While performance curves such as development rate curves obtained from laboratory experiments are still a useful basis for phenological development, we also discuss the need to take into account the heterogeneity of the insect response to environmental factors. This is critical if pest control practices are to be deployed at the optimal time.
Databáze: OpenAIRE