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Alternative prey impedes the efficacy of a natural enemy of mosquitoes [PDF]

Biological Control, 2020
Adaptive foraging behaviour in the presence of multiple prey types may mediate stability to predator-prey relationships. For biological control agents, the presence of alternative prey may thus reduce ecological impacts towards target organisms, presenting a key challenge to the derivation of agent efficacies.
Cuthbert, Ross N., Dalu, Tatenda, Wasserman, Ryan J., Weyl, Olaf L.F., Froneman, P. William, Callaghan, Amanda, Coughlan, Neil E., Dick, Jaimie T.A.   +7 more
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Seabirds mediate intraguild and competitive interactions in a shark community

Ecosphere
Intraguild predation (IGP) and competition significantly influence resource utilization patterns among sympatric species. The presence of alternative prey (consumed only by intraguild [IG] predators and not IG prey) may promote coexistence and have a ...
Chloé A. Blandino, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Jonathan J. Dale, Carl G. Meyer   +3 more
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Implications of shared predation for space use in two sympatric leporids

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Spatial variation in habitat riskiness has a major influence on the predator–prey space race. However, the outcome of this race can be modulated if prey shares enemies with fellow prey (i.e., another prey species).
Martijn J. A. Weterings, Sophie P. Ewert, Jeffrey N. Peereboom, Henry J. Kuipers, Dries P. J. Kuijper, Herbert H. T. Prins, Patrick A. Jansen, Frank van Langevelde, Sipke E. van Wieren   +8 more
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Cost-effective and efficient factitious prey for mass production of Neoseiulus cucumeris (Acari: Phytoseiidae): assessing its quality compared with natural prey

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2022
Background Using alternative diets for the mass production of phytoseiid predatory mites may facilitate their cost-effective rearing. Factitious prey is often used as an alternative food source for mass rearing of generalist phytoseiids.
Shima Yazdanpanah, Yaghoub Fathipour, Elham Riahi, Myron P. Zalucki   +3 more
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Ladybird-Mediated Indirect Interactions between Two Aphid Species When Using a Banker Plant System

Agronomy, 2022
Banker plant systems have the advantages of introducing natural enemies preventively and maintaining by providing alternative prey, thus controlling the pests sustainably.
Yajie Yang, Jie Wang, Yingying Mi, Junjie Gu, Giovanni Benelli, Nicolas Desneux, Su Wang, Shu Li, Yanli Yue   +8 more
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Productivity of Neoseiulus bicaudus (Acari: Phytoseiidae) Reared on Natural Prey, Alternative Prey, and Artificial Diet

Journal of Economic Entomology, 2019
AbstractThe predatory mite, Neoseiulus bicaudus (Wainstein), is a potential biological control agent against spider mites and thrips. The objective of this experiment was to compare the effects of three diets on the life table of N. bicaudus. The three diets were 1) Tetranychus turkestani (Ugarov & Nikolskii) (Acari: Tetranychidae), the natural ...
Jie, Su, Fang, Dong, Si-Min, Liu, Yan-Hui, Lu, Jian-Ping, Zhang   +4 more
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Calf/female ratio and population dynamics of wild forest reindeer in relation to wolf and moose abundances in a managed European ecosystem.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundThe alternative prey hypothesis describes the mechanism for apparent competition whereby the mortality of the secondary prey species increases (and population size decreases decreases) by the increased predation by the shared predator if the ...
Ilpo Kojola, Ville Hallikainen, Samuli Heikkinen, Jukka T Forsman, Tuomas Kukko, Jyrki Pusenius, Paasivaara Antti   +6 more
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Prey Switching and Natural Pest Control Potential of Carabid Communities over the Winter Wheat Cropping Season

Insects
To date, evaluating the diets of natural enemies like carabids has largely been limited to spatially explicit and short-term sampling. This leaves a knowledge gap for the intra-annual dynamics of carabid diets, and the provision and timing of delivery of
Ambre Sacco--Martret de Préville, Karin Staudacher, Michael Traugott, David A. Bohan, Manuel Plantegenest, Elsa Canard   +5 more
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Coevolution in a one predator-two prey system. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Our understanding of coevolution in a predator-prey system is based mostly on pair-wise interactions.Here I analyze a one-predator-two-prey system in which the predator's attack ability and the defense abilities of the prey all evolve. The coevolutionary
Akihiko Mougi
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Performance of each larval instar and adult of predaceous coccinellid Coelophora inaequalis (Fabricius) (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) fed on natural prey and alternative foods [PDF]

Bulletin of Insectology
With the exception of live prey, some lady beetle species consume alternative foods including pollen, nectar and fruit. These alternative foods support the development and reproduction of certains coccinellid species, while others do not benefit as much.
Wigunda Rattanapun, Yaowaphan Sontikun, Jessada Rattanawut, Manop Tarasin   +3 more
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