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Survival and predation rate of wild-caught and commercially produced Orius majusculus (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

Kim Jensen Open the ORCID record for Kim Jensen [Opens in a new window] ,
Søren Toft Open the ORCID record for Søren Toft [Opens in a new window] ,
Jesper G. Sørensen Open the ORCID record for Jesper G. Sørensen [Opens in a new window]  and
Martin Holmstrup Open the ORCID record for Martin Holmstrup [Opens in a new window]
Kim Jensen*
Affiliation:
Department of Bioscience, Section for Terrestrial Ecology, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark
Søren Toft
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Section for Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 116, Building 1540, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Jesper G. Sørensen
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Section for Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 116, Building 1540, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Martin Holmstrup
Affiliation:
Department of Bioscience, Section for Terrestrial Ecology, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark
*
Author for correspondence: Kim Jensen, Email: kj@bios.au.dk
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Abstract

The quality of biological control agents used in augmentative releases may be affected by rearing conditions due to inbreeding or laboratory adaptation, or to phenotypic effects of the rearing environment. We hypothesized that individuals from a wild population would be in better body condition and kill more prey than individuals from a commercially produced population. We caught wild Orius majusculus (Reuter) in a maize field and compared their initial body mass, survival, and prey reduction capacity to commercially produced O. majusculus. Predation capacity and survival were compared in short-term Petri dish tests with Frankliniella tenuicornis (Uzel) thrips, Ephestia kuehniella (Zeller) moth eggs, or Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) aphids as prey, and in longer-term outdoor mesocosms containing live seedling wheat grass with thrips or aphids as prey. Wild-caught O. majusculus were typically heavier and overall had higher survival during tests than commercially produced O. majusculus. Females were heavier than males and typically killed more prey. However, we found no difference between wild-caught and commercially produced individuals on prey reduction, neither in Petri dishes nor in mesocosms. Our study suggests that commercially produced O. majusculus have lower body condition than wild O. majusculus due to their lower body mass and survival, but that this does not have any negative effect on the number of pest prey killed over the timelines and conditions of our tests. Commercially produced O. majusculus thus did not have a lower impact on pest prey numbers than wild-caught individuals and therefore had similar biological control value under our study conditions.

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Artificial rearingbiological controlinsect productionmesocosm studypest insectspredator
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 112 , Issue 3 , June 2022 , pp. 311 - 317
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