Influence of the Larval Host Plant on Reproductive Strategies of Cerambycid Beetles

Hanks, Lawrence M.

doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.44.1.483

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“…Stressed and dying host trees become available to wood borers sporadically and unpredictably when they are damaged or weakened by such environmental factors as wind, lightning strike, fire, and water deficit (reviewed by Hanks, 1999). Their quality as hosts declines rapidly, however, as subcortical tissues are degraded by xylophagous competitors, including buprestid and scolytid beetles, as well as by other cerambycid species.…”

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“…Thus, the quality of larval nutrition depends on the timing of colonization by larvae, and selection favors behaviors in adults that expedite that process, including mutual attraction of males and females to the larval host, and brief copulation followed immediately by oviposition. Adults of other species of the Cerambycinae that require stressed hardwood hosts show similar reproductive behaviors, presumably due to convergent selective pressures (Hanks, 1999).…”

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“…A better understanding of host and mate location is critical for developing management strategies of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), among the most important pests of woody plants in natural and managed systems world wide (Hanks, 1999). Disparate studies of many species in this family have suggested that the sexes are brought together by a mutual attraction to the larval host rather than by long-range pheromones (reviewed by Hanks, 1999).…”

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“…Disparate studies of many species in this family have suggested that the sexes are brought together by a mutual attraction to the larval host rather than by long-range pheromones (reviewed by Hanks, 1999). Recent research on several species in the subfamily Cerambycinae, however, has revealed that males produce pheromones that operate over short or moderate distances (reviewed by Lacey et al, 2004).…”

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Role of Host Plant Volatiles in Mate Location for Three Species of Longhorned Beetles

Ginzel

Hanks

2005

J Chem Ecol

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Abstract-Stressed woody plants represent an ephemeral and unpredictable resource for larvae of some species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) because prime subcortical tissues are rapidly degraded by a guild of xylophagous competitors. Selection favors efficient mechanisms of host and mate location to expedite colonization of hosts by larvae. Based on previous research, we hypothesize that mate location in some species of the subfamily Cerambycinae involves three sequential behavioral stages: (1) both sexes are attracted to larval hosts by plant volatiles; (2) males attract females over shorter distances with pheromones; and (3) males recognize females by contact pheromones in their epicuticular wax layer. We already have evidence of second-stage and third-stage behaviors in three species in this subfamily whose xylophagous larvae feed in hardwood trees: Xylotrechus colonus, Megacyllene caryae, and Neoclytus mucronatus mucronatus. In this report, we evaluate the first behavioral stage of mate location behavior (i.e., independent response of both sexes to host plant volatiles) for the same three species. Supporting our hypothesis, both males and females responded to volatiles emanating from hickory logs in Y-tube olfactometer bioassays.

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Role of Host Plant Volatiles in Mate Location for Three Species of Longhorned Beetles

Ginzel

Hanks

2005

J Chem Ecol

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“…S. calcarata appears to favor weakened hosts (Hanks, 1999). The females of this cerambycid lay their eggs in chewed furrows in aspen bark (Kukor and Martin, 1986).…”

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Aspen mortality in the Colorado and southern Wyoming Rocky Mountains: Extent, severity, and causal factors

Dudley

Burns

Jacobi

2015

Forest Ecology and Management

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We established 573 random roadside survey plots in stands that contained at least 50% aspen cover type. From these random plots, we found average standing aspen tree mortality ranged from 3.3 to 23.7 % on the four national forests and 11% on the east side of the continental divide and 4 % on the west side. Low elevation stands had significantly less mortality (7%) vs. high elevation (8%). The roadside plot data suggests that Colorado's aspen on these four national forests overall were healthy; mortality rates iii among aspen were fairly low (~3 -8%) among all stems, and average percent live crown among adults was high (~85 -90%), in spite of nearly ubiquitous presence of disease (~97 -99%) and high incidence of insect damage (~50 -75%).We also established 98 aspen stand assessment plots with half of the plots in damaged stands, as defined by U.S.D.A. Forest Service aerial detection surveys (ADS), and half in healthy aspen stands. Damaged stands were defined as those stands with (1) thinning crowns among at least 25% of adult aspen, (2) stands with moderate (<50% of stems) levels of overstory mortality, or (3) stands with high (>50% of stems) levels of overstory mortality. Healthy aspen stands were defined as having (1) a maximum mortality rate of 5 -7% among all aspen, and/or (2) more than 75% of adult aspen with full crowns.Adult aspen in damaged stands tended to be less vigorous, based a health score index from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating less healthy conditions (where 1=0-25% damage; 2 = 25-50% damage; 3 = >50% damage; 4 = recent dead; 5 = >5 years dead).Health scores averaged 1.7 in healthy stands, compared to 2.3 in damaged stands.Saplings in damaged stands tended to be healthier with a score of 1.7, compared to 2.2 in healthy stands. Further, there was no difference in the proportion live or total numbers of saplings per hectare between healthy and damaged stands. The prevalence of damaging organisms, such as Cytospora canker (20% in damaged, 13% in healthy), wood-boring insects (27% in damaged, 10% in healthy), and aspen bark beetles (16% in damaged, 7% in healthy) was considerably greater among damaged stands. Site conditions also influenced the prevalence of some of these damage agents: bark beetles were most common among stands at low elevations (18%, compared to 11% and 6% at moderate iv and high elevations, respectively); Cytospora canker was most common among stands on south-or west-facing aspects (20% and 19%, respectively); both aspen bark beetles and Cytospora canker were also most common among stands in the southernmost section of the survey area, the Pike-San Isabel national forest (41% and 36%). There was no difference in the severity of canker or decay fungal infection between healthy and damaged stands. Cytospora canker infestations were more severe on the Medicine Bow NF compared to the other three national forests, and Marssonina foliar blight infection appeared to be most severe on slope summits, concave sites, and sites with either no to low percent slope or moderately steep sl...

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Ecological roles of wildfire residuals

Perera

Buse²

2014

Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests

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Influence of the Larval Host Plant on Reproductive Strategies of Cerambycid Beetles

Cited by 430 publications

References 81 publications

Role of Host Plant Volatiles in Mate Location for Three Species of Longhorned Beetles

Role of Host Plant Volatiles in Mate Location for Three Species of Longhorned Beetles

Aspen mortality in the Colorado and southern Wyoming Rocky Mountains: Extent, severity, and causal factors

Ecological roles of wildfire residuals

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