Foliage maturity of Quercus ilex affects the larval development of a Croatian coastal population of Lymantria dispar (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)
| Autor: | Christa Schafellner, Ivan Lukić, Milan Pernek, Sanja Mrmić, Nikola Lacković, Ferenc Lakatos |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
QH301-705.5 Population Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Lepidoptera genitalia holm oak host plant Lymantria dispar parasitic diseases Juvenile Gypsy moth Holm oak defoliation outbreak host plant gypsy moth Biology (General) education Host plant Holm oak education.field_of_study Larva defoliation General Immunology and Microbiology outbreak Ecology Host (biology) General Neuroscience fungi Gypsy moth Outbreak biology.organism_classification Pupa 010602 entomology Defoliation General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Open Life Sciences, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 12-18 (2017) |
| Popis: | Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) is one of the most important forest pests in the world. Numerous previous studies focused only on different host tree species, but small number of them on foliage age. Since recent genetic analyses showed that there are significant differences between Croatian continental and coastal population we investigated coastal population since there was no previous research. For this research juvenile and mature foliage of Holm oak (Quercus ilex) was used. Larval development was investigated in two laboratory experiments. One experiment involved rearing trials consisting of 50 individual larvae per treatment while a parallel experiment investigated gregarious feeding conditions using 120 larvae in a rearing treatment. Larval mortality was lower and development time shorter for individuals reared on juvenile foliage. High pupation success in both the individual and group rearing experiment for larvae reared on juvenile foliage was also observed. To conclude, our results showed high mortality, poor larval development and low pupation success in larvae reared on mature foliage. This research is significant because in the aspect of ongoing climate changes there is a possibility that gypsy moth will move to the north and shift its distribution by expanding into new climatic area. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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