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Ants contribute to raspberry pollination in protected cropping systems

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Ants visited raspberry flowers more frequently than European honey bees (Apis mellifera), Australian stingless bees (Tetragonula carbonaria) and flies, many transporting raspberry pollen on their bodies, indicating potential pollination capacity. Ants were active flower visitors at most times of the day and may extend the daily pollination window and ...
Pia Malm, Blake M. Dawson, Jelena Preradovic, Johan Ekroos, Romina Rader, Bar Shermeister, Lena A. Schmidt   +6 more
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Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination

Supplementary data associated with this article can be found in the online version at doi:10.1016/j.cois.2023.101138.Sugar-rich plant-related secretions, such as floral nectar and honeydew, that are commonly used as nutrient sources by insects and other ...
Álvarez Pérez, Sergio, de Vega, Clara, Lievens, Bart   +2 more
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Competitive Interactions Between Generalist Predators and Their Effects on Shared and Non‐Shared Pests in a Greenhouse Crop

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Orius laevigatus engages in unidirectional intraguild predation on Transeius montdorensis. Despite this, both predators coexisted and suppressed the shared thrips prey. Aphids, a non‐shared prey, were effectively controlled by O. laevigatus even when its population was limited due to intraguild predation. T.
Angelos Mouratidis, Jesica Pérez‐Rodríguez, Hessel van der Heide, Gerben J. Messelink   +3 more
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Effect of Honeydew Secreted by Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on Fungal Growth

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology
Honeydew is a sugar-rich, sticky substance secreted by many plant-feeding insect species from the order of Hemiptera and Lepidoptera. Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae), on the other hand, feed on nitrogen-poor, carbohydrate-rich phloem sap and excrete excess
Gülay Olcabey Ergin, Yunus Bozkurt, Gizem Başer, Elif Yürümez Canpolat, Gazi Görür, Ayten Öztürk   +5 more
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Impact of Host and Food Availability on Life‐History Traits in Six Egg Parasitoid Species of the Genus Trichogramma

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
In this study we measured the impact of access to sugar and hosts on the longevity and fecundity of six Trichogramma species: T. cacoeciae, T. chilonis, T. minutum, T. leptoparameron, T. pintoi and T. sibericum. The impact of food differed among species, but there was a general tendency of increased life expectancy and potential fecundity with sugar ...
Véronique Martel, Marlène Goubault, Guy Boivin   +2 more
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Energy reserves of parasitoids depend on honeydew from non‐hosts

, 2013
Adult parasitoids depend on sugar-rich foods such as nectar and honeydew to meet their energy requirements and control insect pests. However, it is poorly known whether parasitoids can detect and feed on honeydew in agroecosystems, where it is the ...
Pekas, Apostolos, Tena, Alejandro, ALEJANDRO TENA, ALBERTO URBANEJA, Wackers, Felix L., Urbaneja, Alberto, APOSTOLOS PEKAS, FELIX L. WÄCKERS   +7 more
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Aphid honeydew: An arrestant and a contact kairomone for Episyrphus balteatus (Diptera: Syrphidae) larvae and adults

European Journal of Entomology, 2014
Predator searching efficiency increases in response to a variety of environmental cues associated with its prey. The sugary excretion of aphids (honeydew) has been found to act as a prey-associated cue for many aphid natural enemies. In the present study,
Pascal D. LEROY, Raki ALMOHAMAD, Sabrine ATTIA, Quentin CAPELLA, François J. VERHEGGEN, Eric HAUBRUGE, Frédéric FRANCIS   +6 more
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Attractiveness of Melon Genotypes to Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) Mediated by Foliar Morphological and Biochemical Traits

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
This study identifies melon genotypes resistant to Bemisia tabaci by integrating morphological and biochemical leaf traits. Using free‐choice and no‐choice assays, we demonstrate that resistance is primarily mediated by antixenosis. Genotypes CNPH 11‐1071‐43, CNPH 06‐1047‐343, CNPH 13‐1076, and BG MEL 16 significantly reduced whitefly settling and ...
Lucas de Lima Farias, Wenner Vinícius Araújo Saraiva, Lincon Matheus Araújo Silva, Karen Alessandra Castro Ramos, Vanessa de Araújo Lira, Gabriela Priscila de Sousa Maciel, Celli Rodrigues Muniz, Nívia da Silva Dias‐Pini   +7 more
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Discrimination of Quercus pyrenaica honeydew honey through the volatile profile [PDF]

, 2023
Honey is a natural product produced by Apis mellifera bees from the nectar of flowers, and called nectar honey, or secretions of plants or excretions produced by plant-sucking insects and called honeydew honey.
Falcão, Soraia, Vilas-Boas, Miguel, Mouffok, Kheira   +2 more
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Impacts of a Sweet Orange Essential Oil–Based Biopesticide on Exorista larvarum, a Parasitoid Tachinid Fly With a Dual Role

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Lethal (mortality) and sublethal (fecundity, fertility) effects of the biopesticide Prev‐Am Plus (containing ~6% sweet orange essential oil) were assessed on the tachinid fly Exorista larvarum. Mated females were exposed via contact and oral routes across five concentrations (0.25%–20%) using protocols adapted from Apis mellifera.
Santolo Francati, Fabio Sgolastra, Rafaela Tadei, Maria Luisa Dindo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source