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Functional response in coccinellid beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) is modified by prey-density experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2022

Desh Deepak Chaudhary ,
Bhupendra Kumar Open the ORCID record for Bhupendra Kumar [Opens in a new window] ,
Geetanjali Mishra  and
Omkar
Desh Deepak Chaudhary
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, 484887, India
Bhupendra Kumar
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221005, India
Geetanjali Mishra
Affiliation:
Ladybird Research Laboratory Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226007, India
Omkar*
Affiliation:
Ladybird Research Laboratory Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226007, India
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

In the present study, we assessed functional response curves of two generalist coccinellid beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), specifically Menochilus sexmaculatus and Propylea dissecta, using fluctuating densities of aphid prey as a stimulus. In what may be the first such study, we investigated how the prey density experienced during the early larval development of these two predatory beetle species shaped the functional response curves of the late instar–larval and adult stages. The predators were switched from their rearing prey-density environments of scarce, optimal, or abundant prey to five testing density environments of extremely scarce, scarce, suboptimal, optimal, or abundant prey. The individuals of M. sexmaculatus that were reared on either scarce- and optimal- or abundant-prey densities exhibited type II functional response curves as both larvae and adults. However, individuals of P. dissecta that were reared on scarce- and abundant-prey densities displayed modified type II functional response curves as larvae and type II functional response curves as adults. In contrast, individuals of P. dissecta reared on the optimal-prey density displayed type II functional response curves as larvae and modified type II functional response curves as adults. The fourth-instar larvae and adult females of M. sexmaculatus and P. dissecta also exhibited highest prey consumption (T/Th) and shortest prey-handling time (Th) on the scarce-prey rearing density. Thus, under fluctuating-prey conditions, M. sexmaculatus is a better biological control agent of aphids than P. dissecta is.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 154 , Issue 1 , 2022 , e11
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Entomological Society of Canada

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