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Migration of parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of cereal aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) between grassland, early-sown cereals and late-sown cereals in southern England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

V. T. Vorley  and
S. D. Wratten
V. T. Vorley
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Building 44, The University, Southampton, SO9 5NH, UK
S. D. Wratten
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Building 44, The University, Southampton, SO9 5NH, UK
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Abstract

The dynamics of migration of the parasitoids Aphidius spp. between grassland and cereal fields of varying sowing dates was investigated in southern England in 1980 and 1981. Using baffled water traps, direct evidence of migration of A. rhopalosiphi De Stefani Perez females from grassland to winter wheat was obtained in June 1980, suggesting that the early-maturing grassland aphid Metopolophium festucae (Theobald) can act as a reservoir of cereal aphid parasitoids. In 1981, estimates of parasitoid production in cereal fields containing the aphids Sitobion avenae (F.), M. dirhodum (Walker) and Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) were compared with actual numbers to calculate net immigration and emigration. Barley and early-sown wheat (drilled before 14 October) proved to be significant sources of Aphidius spp., with one wheat field generating sufficient parasitoids in May to account for immigration into about 25 late-sown fields. Parasitoid migration as larvae inside aphid alatae was apparently of considerably less significance than that by adults, which were predominantly female. The advantages of early drilling of cereals to form ‘semi perennial’ reservoirs of beneficial insects is discussed and weighed against the corresponding disadvantages, especially an increased risk of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV).

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 77 , Issue 4 , December 1987 , pp. 555 - 568
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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