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- Title
Use of Plant Resin by a Bee Assassin Bug, Apiomerus flaviventris (Hemiptera: Reduviidae).
- Authors
Dong-Hwan Choe; Rust, Michael K.
- Abstract
A bee assassin bug, Apiomerus flaviventris Herrich-Schäffer (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), of the arid or semiarid southwestern North America is known to exploit resins from plants and apply them to the eggs for protection. To elucidate the source and possible functions of the resin, A. flaviventris were collected in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California, and observed in the laboratory. Female A. flaviventris collected the resin from a desert perennial shrub, brittlebush, Encelia farinosa Gray ex Torr. (Asteraceae). Bioassays with the predatory ant species Forelius pruinosus (Roger) and Linepithema humile (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) indicated that the brittlebush resin coating is important in preventing A. flaviventris eggs from being picked up by omnivorous predators.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; ASSASSIN bugs; HEMIPTERA; GUMS &; resins; INSECT eggs; ASTERACEAE; BIOLOGICAL assay; LINEPITHEMA
- Publication
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2007, Vol 100, Issue 2, p320
- ISSN
0013-8746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[320:UOPRBA]2.0.CO;2