Difference in the Timing of Larval Jumping Behavior of Mass-Reared and Newly-Colonized Strains of the Melon Fly, Dacus cucurbitae COQUILLETT(Diptera:Tephritidae)

Suenaga, Hikaru; Kamiwada, Hidemi; Chishaki, Naoya

doi:10.1303/aez.27.177

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“…In our study, the egg-larval stage averaged 7.4 days on both cucumber and sponge gourd, and was within the range observed by Suenaga et al (1992) in their study of larval jumping behavior. The total preadult development times of 15.1 days on cucumber and 17.3 days on sponge gourd were shorter than the 18-20 days reported by Miyatake (1993).…”

Section: Life Table Of Bactrocera Cucurbitaesupporting

confidence: 88%

Age‐stage, two‐sex life tables of Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a discussion on the problem of applying female age‐specific life tables to insect populations

Huang¹,

Chi²

2011

Insect Science

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Age‐stage, two‐sex life tables of the melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae), reared on cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), sponge gourd (Luffa cylindrica Roem) and a carrot medium (mashed Daucus carota L. mixed with sucrose and yeast hydrolysate) were constructed under laboratory conditions at 25 ± 1°C, 65%± 0.5% relative humidity, and a photoperiod 12 : 12 h (L : D). The intrinsic rates of increase of B. cucurbitae were 0.144 6, 0.141 2 and 0.068 8 days on cucumber, sponge gourd, and carrot medium, respectively. The highest net reproduction rate was 172 offspring per fly reared on sponge gourd. The mean generation times of B. cucurbitae ranged from 34 days reared on cucumber to 56 days reared on carrot medium. The life history raw data was analyzed using the traditional female age‐specific life table and compared to results obtained using the age‐stage, two‐sex life table. When the age‐specific female life table is applied to an age‐stage‐structured two‐sex population, survival and fecundity curves will be improperly manipulated due to an inability to include variation in preadult development time. We discussed different interpretations of the relationship between the net reproductive rate and the intrinsic rate of increase to clarify possible misunderstanding in the literature.

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Section: Life Table Of Bactrocera Cucurbitaesupporting

confidence: 88%

Age‐stage, two‐sex life tables of Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a discussion on the problem of applying female age‐specific life tables to insect populations

Huang¹,

Chi²

2011

Insect Science

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198

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“…Soft-bodied jumpers have been observed in two phyla and eight families: Steinernematidae (Campbell and Kaya, 1999a,b;Reed and Wallace, 1965), Tephritidae (Maitland, 1992;Suenaga et al, 1992), Mycetophilidae (Camazine, 1986), Piophilidae (Bonduriansky, 2002), Ichneumonidae (Day, 1970;Saeki et al, 2016), Thyrididae (Humphreys and Darling, 2013), Drosophilidae (Marinov et al, 2015) and Cecidomyiidae. There are over 6203 known species and 736 genera in the family Cecidomyiidae distributed throughout the world (Gagné and Jaschhof, 2014), several of which have been reported to jump (Tokuhisa et al, 1979;Manier and Deamer, 2014;Milne, 1961), suggesting an abundance of subjects for studying hydrostatic jumping mechanisms (Table 2).…”

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“…A particularly intriguing jumping strategy is employed by some small, worm-like animals that use latching, hydrostatic manipulation and elastic mechanisms to launch themselves into the air. This strategy is employed by larvae of certain groups of dipterans (Camazine, 1986;Suenaga et al, 1992;Maitland, 1992;Bonduriansky, 2002;Marinov et al, 2015;Manier and Deamer, 2014) and by nematodes (Campbell and Kaya, 1999a,b). Analogous legless-jumping systems have been discovered several times, yet a basic framework for the biomechanics of worm-like jumpers is needed in order to establish general design principles and interpret the diversity and ecology of these systems.…”

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Adhesive latching and legless leaping in small, worm-like insect larvae

Farley

Wise

Harrison

et al. 2019

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Jumping is often achieved using propulsive legs, yet legless leaping has evolved multiple times. We examined the kinematics, energetics and morphology of long-distance jumps produced by the legless larvae of gall midges (Asphondylia sp.). They store elastic energy by forming their body into a loop and pressurizing part of their body to form a transient 'leg'. They prevent movement during elastic loading by placing two regions covered with microstructures against each other, which likely serve as a newly described adhesive latch. Once the latch releases, the transient 'leg' launches the body into the air. Their average takeoff speeds (mean: 0.85 m s −1 ; range: 0.39-1.27 m s −1) and horizontal travel distances (up to 36 times body length or 121 mm) rival those of legged insect jumpers and their mass-specific power density (mean: 910 W kg −1 ; range: 150-2420 W kg −1) indicates the use of elastic energy storage to launch the jump. Based on the forces reported for other microscale adhesive structures, the adhesive latching surfaces are sufficient to oppose the loading forces prior to jumping. Energetic comparisons of insect larval crawling versus jumping indicate that these jumps are orders of magnitude more efficient than would be possible if the animals had crawled an equivalent distance. These discoveries integrate three vibrant areas in engineering and biologysoft robotics, small, high-acceleration systems, and adhesive systemsand point toward a rich, and as-yet untapped area of biological diversity of worm-like, small, legless jumpers.

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“…These two populations were used to eradicate the wild melon fly of the Okinawa Islands using a sterile insect technique in 1990s (Koyama et al ., ). Population A was collected from the Amami Islands, and the founder size, constituting more than 2000 flies, was maintained for approximately 100 generations, and used for eradication in the Amami Islands (Suenaga et al ., ; Koyama et al ., ). Population I was established from approximately 100 flies collected from Iriomote Island in the 1990s (H. Kuba, personal communication) and reared for approximately 90 generations before the experiment.…”

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Faster (or slower) developers have a shorter (or longer) circadian period in Bactrocera cucurbitae

Miyatake

2016

Physiol. Entomol.

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A clock controlling circadian rhythm may relate to another clock controlling development time. The relationship between the two clocks remains open to discussion. Genetic correlation between developmental and circadian periods is observed in two Dipteran species (Bactrocera cucurbitae and Drosophila melanogaster), whereas it is not observed in a Coleopteran species (Callosobruchus chinensis). No studies, however, are available that report on the phenotypic correlation between the two traits. In the present study, free-running circadian periods are compared between individuals that develop fastest and slowest within a population of B. cucurbitae. The measurement of circadian periods is replicated using five populations of B. cucurbitae with different geographical and rearing histories. The results demonstrate that the flies developing more slowly have significantly longer circadian periods compared with the flies developing more quickly in two of five populations examined in B. cucurbitae, and thus the phenotypic correlation is dependent on population.

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Difference in the Timing of Larval Jumping Behavior of Mass-Reared and Newly-Colonized Strains of the Melon Fly, Dacus cucurbitae COQUILLETT(Diptera:Tephritidae)

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Age‐stage, two‐sex life tables of Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a discussion on the problem of applying female age‐specific life tables to insect populations

Age‐stage, two‐sex life tables of Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a discussion on the problem of applying female age‐specific life tables to insect populations

Adhesive latching and legless leaping in small, worm-like insect larvae

Faster (or slower) developers have a shorter (or longer) circadian period in Bactrocera cucurbitae

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