Dietary experience alters predatory behavior of two ladybird species on tomato potato psyllid

作     者：Shovon Chandra Sarkar Stephen Paul Milroy Wei Xu 

作者机构：Food Futures InstituteMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia 

出 版 物：《Insect Science》 (昆虫科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第31卷第5期

页      面：1579-1590页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 09[农学] 

基　　金：This research was also funded by the Agricultural Produce Commission of Western Australia(APCP2123197POT and APCP2123197VEG) 

主　　题：biological control invasive pest predator predator experience prey prefer-ence 

摘      要：The tomato potato psyllid,Bactericera cockerelli,is an invasive pest in Aus-tralia,which can cause severe economic loss in the production of Solanaceous *** an invasive pest,*** may also modify biotic interactions in Australian agricul-tural and native *** generalist predators in an area may have the ability to utilize invasive pest species as prey but this will depend on their specific predatory *** extent to which generalist predators learn from their previous dietary ex-perience(i.e.,whether they have used a particular species as prey before)and how this impacts subsequent prey choice will influence predator and prey population dynamics af-ter *** this study,one nonnative resident ladybird,Hippodamia variegata,and one native ladybird,Coccinella transversalis,were *** experience with *** as a prey species significantly increased preference for the psyllid in a short term(6 h)Petri dish study where a choice of prey was *** suppression of *** populations by experienced ladybirds was also observed on glasshouse grown tomato *** was presumably due to altered prey recognition by *** result of this study suggest the potential to improve the impact of biological control agents on invasive pests by providing early life experience consuming the target *** may prove valuable for developing improved augmentative release strategies for ladybirds to manage specific insect pest species.