Preliminary study of the behavior of selecting host of
longhorned beetles and the role of their sense organs in
this process
Copyright
F.G. Wang 1 ,
J. X. Zhou 2 & X. Y. Yang 2
1 P.O. Box 11,
Res. Inst. Of Forest Ecol., Environ. and Protec., Chinese
acad. Of Forestry, Beijing 100091, P. R. China, 2 Northwest
Forestry College, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, P. R. China.
Longhorned
beetles (Anoplophora
nobilis)
cause
serious
damage and
loss on
poplar,
willow in
north China.
Planting
mixed forest
was thought
a better
measure to
control
them,
replenish
the loss of
forest and
gradually
replace pure
forest
according to
previous
research.
But how to
afforest
mixed forest
is a mystery
which need
to be
exposed.
Hence, the
selecting-host
behavior of
longhorned
beetles
should be
studied as a
basis for
making a
strategic
decision. In
1994, the
behavior of
selecting
host of
longhorned
beetles was
observed in
a mixed
forest
consisted of
30 species
of trees.
The results
showed: for
different
species of
trees, the
longhorned
beetles had
different
selecting-host
behavior
respectively.
The
susceptive
host trees
in mixed
forest, such
as acer
oliverianum,
could
finally be
selected by
a complex,
time-consuming
and gradual
sense
behavior.
After a few
longhorned
beetles fed,
mated on
them, it was
sure that
more
longhorned
beetles
would be
attracted to
them, and
finally the
susceptive
trees were
damaged
seriously.
It was
obvious that
longhorned
beetles were
attracted by
the odor of
hosts
firstly,
then by
intraspecific
sex
attraction.
However, for
some species
of trees,
such as
platycladus
orientalis
and robinia
pseudoacacia,
longhorned
beetles
loved to
approach to
them,
selected
them and
sometimes
inhabited on
them for a
long time,
but they
didn’t feed
on them and
had no
mating
behavior. It
was thought
that the
odor of host
trees
apparently
influenced
this
behavior of
longhorned
beetles. So,
mixed forest
could only
delay the
time that
longhorned
beetles
reached
susceptive
hosts, but
it couldn’t
effectively
prevent
their
invasion.
When
afforested,
many trees,
like
platycladus
orientalis,
should be
planted and
a few
susceptive
trees, like
acer
oliverianum
or poplar,
should be
planted as
trap trees
in mixed
forest.
Generally,
longhorned
beetles
probed which
species of
trees they
liked by
swinging
antenna,
rubbing
tarsus
besides
vision
before they
reached
them.
Beetles’
compound
eyes or
visual sense
was the most
important
sense organ,
and the next
is antenna
and tarsus.
If losing
vision,
longhorned
beetles
would not
know where
they should
head for,
often went
around at
one place,
and lost
their most
flying
ability.
Labial palpi
and
maxillary
palp
functioned
only when
longhorned
beetles
probed which
food was
flavorful or
delicious.
Tarsus was
useful and
indispensable
in the whole
selecting-host
procedure
because,
together
with other
sense
organs, it
often
supplied
information
for
longhorned
beetles to
affirm
hosts.
Index terms:
Anoplophora
nobilis,
behavior,
selecting
host, sense
organs,
forest.
Copyright:
The
copyrights
of this
original
work
belong
to the
authors
(see
right-most
box in
title
table).
This
abstract
appeared
in
Session
4 –
CHEMICAL
AND
PHYSIOLOGICAL
ECOLOGY
Symposium
and
Poster
Session,
ABSTRACT
BOOK I –
XXI-International
Congress
of
Entomology,
Brazil,
August
20-26,
2000.
Contents
were
taken
from the
following
publications:
Wang
Fugui,
Zhou
Jiaxi,
Yang
Xueyan.
Study on
the
relationship
between
the
behavior
of
selecting-host
of
Anoplophor
nobilis
and host
resistance
on this
beetle
in mixed
forest.
Scientia
Silvae
Sinicae.2000,36(1):58-65
Yang
Xueyan,
Wang
Fugui,
Zhou
Jiaxie.
A study
on the
behavior
of
selecting-host
of
Longhcorn
adult in
mixed
forest.
Journal
of
Northwest
Forestry
College.
1995,10(2):22-26
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