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- Title
The impact of ant attendance on protecting <italic>Aphis gossypii</italic> against two aphidophagous predators and it’s role on the Intraguild Predation between them.
- Authors
Karami-jamour, Tahereh; Mirmoayedi, Alinaghi; Zamani, Abbasali; Khajehzadeh, Yadolah
- Abstract
In this study the changes in <italic>Aphis gossypii</italic> Glover populations tended by the homopteran- tending ant, <italic>Tapinoma simrothi</italic> Krausse when exposed to the natural enemies Chrysoperla carnea Stephens and Coccinellia septempunctata Mulsant was studied. We also studied the effect of ant’s attendance on the consequence of intraguild predation (IGP) between these two predators. The presence of ants <italic>T. simrothi</italic> had deterrent impact on natural enemies of <italic>A. gossypii</italic> compared to control aphid populations in absence of ants. Equally we observed that IGP between two aphid predators decreased when <italic>T. simrothi</italic> was present. The lowest IGP level was observed when both aphids and ants were present in the microcosm arena. In the microcosm arena the presence of ants had an indirect effect on the occurrence of IGP. Our results suggest that although the mutualistic ants have an indirect impact on the IGP by aphidophages predators, but their roles should not be ignored.
- Subjects
HEMIPTERA; PREDATION; MUTUALISM; COTTON aphid; TAPINOMA; PLANT parasites
- Publication
Journal of Insect Behavior, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 2, p222
- ISSN
0892-7553
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10905-018-9670-4