Parasitoid Wasps
Differences in the reliance on cuticular hydrocarbons as sexual signaling and species discrimination cues in parasitoid wasps
... Background: Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) have been documented to play crucial roles as species- and sex- specific cues in the chemical communication systems of a wide variety of insects. However, whether they are ...
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The evolution of gregariousness in parasitoid wasps
... to parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera). Parasitoid wasps are a species-rich group of organisms which lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other insects (Quicke ...it. Parasitoid ...
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Beyond sex allocation : the role of mating systems in sexual selection in parasitoid wasps
... If kin of one sex compete for mates, then that competition is costly for the mother, and so natural selection should favour mothers that over-produce the non-competing sex (Hamilton, 1967). For kin to interact and ...
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Drosophila parasitoid wasps bears a distinct DNA transposon profile
... that parasitoid wasps sequences mostly belong to the Helitron 1 clade and only one sequence characterized in this study clustered in the Helitron 2 ...of wasps including the one focused on this ...
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Sustenance and performance: nutritional reserves, longevity and contest outcomes of fed and starved adult parasitoid wasps
... studied parasitoid wasps lack de novo lipogenesis, with adult lipid reserves being limited to those acquired throughout larval ...adult parasitoid lifespan and fecundity by potentially acting as a ...
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Parasitoid Wasps a Powerful Weapon Against the Insect Pests
... includes wasps, bees and ants; out of which the wasps play an interesting role in protecting our cultivated and stored ...of wasps and thus to provide proper parental care to their young ones are ...
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The Role of Lipid Competition for Endosymbiont Mediated Protection against Parasitoid Wasps in Drosophila
... against parasitoid wasps and parasitic nema- todes, respectively (11, ...the parasitoid wasp ...These parasitoid wasps use very distinctive infection strategies ...of parasitoid ...
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Thioester-containing proteins regulate the Toll pathway and play a role in Drosophila defence against microbial pathogens and parasitoid wasps
... France. Parasitoid wasps of the species Asobara tabida and Leptopilina boulardi were used, and parasitisation experiments were performed as described in ...
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Variation in the species richness of parasitoid wasps (Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae and Rhyssinae) across sites on different continents
... LATITUDINAL SPECIES(RICHNESS GRADIENT.—Our results lend no support to the anomalous latitudinal species(richness gradient that was originally proposed by Owen & Owen (1974), at least for the subfamilies Pimplinae and ...
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What can parasitoid wasps teach us about decision making in insects?
... Recent evidence suggests that the monoamine pair DA/OA, in particular, plays an important role in the induction of hypokinesia in the stung cockroach host. In the SEG, one specific population of monoaminergic neurons ...
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Do natural enemies really make a difference?:field scale impacts of parasitoid wasps and hoverfly larvae on cereal aphid populations
... The traps were set on 28 th June, and reset each week until 19 th July 2010, after which the aphid population underwent the mid-season crash (Karley et al., 2004). Samples were preserved in industrial methylated spirits ...
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Galls as a Disputed Resource for Female Parasitoid Wasps Contests
... the parasitoid Torymus ...behavior. Wasps alone spent more time in gall exploitation beha- viors (walk-antennate and probe) and in post-oviposition behaviors (stationary and groom), and when intruders were ...
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Intragenomic conflict over soldier allocation in polyembryonic parasitoid wasps
... and her paternal-origin genes will prefer a greater level of gene expression, and so we predict soldier.. inhibitors will be maternally-silenced and paternally-expressed figure 2A..[r] ...
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War of the wasps: is Diadegma insulare or Microplitis plutellae a more effective parasitoid of the Diamondback Moth, Plutella xylostella ?
... many parasitoid wasps that attack the Diamondback Moth, but two of the most studied are Diadegma insulare (Figure 2) and Microplitis plutellae (Figure ...these parasitoid wasps are native to ...
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Developmental analysis of Ganaspis xanthopoda, a larval parasitoid of Drosophila melanogaster
... Several Ganaspis species are solitary larval parasitoids of Drosophila species (Nordlander, 1980, 1982; Vet and Bakker, 1985; Carton et al., 1986). Because of its wide geographical distribution, G. xanthopoda is ...
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Mutually beneficial host exploitation and ultra biased sex ratios in quasisocial parasitoids
... suppression, respectively. Female-biased sex ratios in subsocial bethylids can be largely explained by LMC 35,36,46 but the ultra- biased sex ratios of the quasisocial S. harmandi are better explained by LRE via ...
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Biomechanics of substrate boring by fig wasps
... as wasps, the ovipositor may also act as a sting to inject venom into other live hosts (Rahman et ...aid parasitoid wasps in locating areas containing host ...
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A Comparison of Beneficial Arthropod Communities in Urban Bioretention Cells and Ornamental Landscapes.
... parasitoids, and detritivores in engineered bioretention cells (bio-cells) and in ornamental landscapes to compare arthropod communities using three different trapping methods: yellow sticky cards, vacuum sampling, and ...
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The Prevalence of Introduced Vespula vulgaris Wasps in a New- Zealand Beech Forest Community
... of wasps in each excavated nest was assessed by adding together the separate values estimated for workers, drones, queens, larvae and ...of wasps associated with a nest because it ignores workers that died ...
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Searching Behavior of Coccinella undecimpunctata L (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Its Parasitoid Tetrastichus coccinellae Kurd (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
... the parasitoid was attracted by a combination of host plant and host volatiles in both the absence and presence of non-host plant volatiles in a Y-tube ...the parasitoid preferred the blend of host plant ...
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