Determination of the Homing Range of Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabonidae)

McCabe, Eleanor A.; Chandler, Donald S.

doi:10.3157/021.129.0309

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“…Using C. fumipennis to surveil for invasive buprestid species, including emerald ash borer, is an innovative approach to a difficult problem. However, since its inception, the question of how much area was actively surveilled by a colony has been a vexing one (Nalepa et al 2013, Careless et al 2014, McCabe and Chandler 2020). Using land cover data in a GIS framework allowed us to approach this question from a different perspective.…”

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“…We found that the strongest correlation between prey type and forest type was for areas in a 1.0–1.5 km radius of the colony. Previous research approaches yielded a foraging range of 200 m to 2.5 km (Nalepa et al 2013, Careless et al 2014, McCabe and Chandler 2020). Our results are well within that range but serve to tighten the proposed window.…”

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“…One approach to approximate dispersal ability was releasing female wasps varying distances from their nests. Those that successfully returned were assumed to have been released within their potential foraging range (Fabré 1915, Careless et al 2014, McCabe and Chandler 2020). Using this method, a maximum and average flight speed was established, and an estimate, bounded on the upper end of the distance from which wasps returned, was calculated based on the average time it took wasps to perform round-trip foraging events.…”

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Estimating the foraging range of Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) using land cover data

Rutledge

2023

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

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Biosurveillance monitors the prey of the solitary buprestid-hunting wasp, Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), for the presence for emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, Fairmaire: Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Still unresolved is the foraging range, and thus the surveillance range, of C. fumipennis. Foraging occurs in forest canopies and wasps are difficult to track. We assumed that the proportion of conifer-feeding beetles collected at a colony would be related to the proportion of conifers in the surrounding area. If this is the case, the radius of the area around a colony which best correlates the proportion of conifers with the proportion of conifer feeding prey should reflect the foraging range of the colony. In this study, we used 7 yr of foraging data, and the National Land Cover Dataset 2016 map to estimate the foraging range of C. fumipennis. Overall, we found that the highest correlation between prey type collected, and forest type present, was between 1,000 and 1,500 m from the nest sites. We thus conclude that surveillance of a colony of C. fumipennis will yield information about the presence of non-native buprestids within a 1.0–1.5 km radius.

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