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Studies on the Dermestid beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. VI.—Factors inducing diapause

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

H. D. Burges
H. D. Burges
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Pest Infestation Laboratory, Slough, Bucks.
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The facultative larval diapause of the khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts, is initiated extrinsically by temperature, crowding, and very low or very high humidity. In crowded populations, in tubes of wheat, the proportion of diapause larvae varies from very low (2 to 3 per cent.) in the upper part of the insect's temperature range to 100 per cent, in the lower part. Diapause larvae become more frequent with increasing population density, the frequency becoming noticeable at a density of about ten larvae per gramme of wheat (about 10 times their minimum food requirements). Accumulation of faecal pellets is a factor that induces diapause in crowded conditions. Many larvae that are kept singly enter diapause when fed on old culture food from which pellets have been removed: possibly in the old culture the pellets impart to the food a substance that initiates diapause. The availability of a suitable refuge, in which larvae can cluster, has no consistent effect on the proportion of diapause larvae. Factors that induce diapause also slightly increase the developmental period of non-diapause larvae.

In malted barley, more larvae enter diapause than in wheat, probably due to the intensification of crowding by the confinement of larvae to a few malt grains.

The relative importance of the factors that induce diapause is discussed. These factors help to explain observations in stores and conflicting results in the literature. The main function of diapause seems to be in assisting the larvae to survive periods of food shortage; diapause may also improve the survival of larvae in a cold winter and synchronise the emergence of adults. Of the factors inducing diapause, accumulation of faecal pellets precedes food shortage and falling temperatures precede the cold of winter, but the role of high and low humidities in this connection is difficult to assess. Diapause larvae play a major part in the dispersal of the species. The diapause of T. granarium is compared with that of other arthropods.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , November 1963 , pp. 571 - 587
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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