Losing the Arms Race: Greater Wax Moths Sense but Ignore Bee Alarm Pheromones
文献类型:期刊论文
作者 | Li, Yuan1; Jiang, Xingchuan2; Wang, Zhengwei; Zhang, Junjun1; Klett, Katrina1; Mehmood, Shahid1; Qu, Yufeng; Tan, Ken |
刊名 | INSECTS |
出版日期 | 2019 |
卷号 | 10期号:3页码:- |
ISSN号 | 2075-4450 |
关键词 | Galleria-mellonella Apis-mellifera Sex-pheromone Lepidoptera Behavior Larvae Identification Pyralidae Responses Waxmoth |
DOI | 10.3390/insects10030081 |
英文摘要 | The greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella L., is one of main pests of honeybees. The larvae burrow into the wax, damaging the bee comb and degenerating bee products, but also causes severe effects like driving the whole colony to abscond. In the present study, we used electroantennograms, a Y maze, and an oviposition site choice bioassay to test whether the greater wax moth can eavesdrop on bee alarm pheromones (isopentyl acetate, benzyl acetate, octyl acetate, and 2-heptanone), to target the bee colony, or if the bee alarm pheromones would affect their preference of an oviposition site. The results revealed that the greater wax moth showed a strong electroantennogram response to these four compounds of bee alarm pheromones even in a low concentration (100 ng/mu L), while they showed the highest response to octyl acetate compared to the other three main bee alarm components (isopentyl acetate, benzyl acetate, and 2-heptanone). However, the greater wax moth behavioral results showed no significant preference or avoidance to these four bee alarm pheromones. These results indicate that bees are currently losing the arms race since the greater wax moth can sense bee alarm pheromones, however, these alarm pheromones are ignored by the greater wax moth. |
学科主题 | Entomology |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000464237500002 |
源URL | [http://ir.xtbg.org.cn/handle/353005/11174] |
专题 | 西双版纳热带植物园_2012年后新成立研究组 |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Trop Forest Ecol, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Kunming 650000, Yunnan, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Life Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Anhui Agr Univ, Coll Plant Protect, Hefei 230036, Anhui, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Yuan,Jiang, Xingchuan,Wang, Zhengwei,et al. Losing the Arms Race: Greater Wax Moths Sense but Ignore Bee Alarm Pheromones[J]. INSECTS,2019,10(3):-. |
APA | Li, Yuan.,Jiang, Xingchuan.,Wang, Zhengwei.,Zhang, Junjun.,Klett, Katrina.,...&Tan, Ken.(2019).Losing the Arms Race: Greater Wax Moths Sense but Ignore Bee Alarm Pheromones.INSECTS,10(3),-. |
MLA | Li, Yuan,et al."Losing the Arms Race: Greater Wax Moths Sense but Ignore Bee Alarm Pheromones".INSECTS 10.3(2019):-. |
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来源:西双版纳热带植物园
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