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HOST DERIVED CHEMICALS: THE BASIS FOR PREFERENTIAL FEEDING BEHAVIOR OF THE LARCH SAWFLY, PRISTIPHORA ERICHSONII (HYMENOPTERA: TENTHREDINIDAE), ON TAMARACK, LARIX LARICINA1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

M. R. Wagner ,
T. Ikeda ,
D. M. Benjamin  and
F. Matsumura
M. R. Wagner
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
T. Ikeda
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
D. M. Benjamin
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
F. Matsumura
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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Abstract

Larch sawfly larvae, Pristiphora erichsonii (Hartig), naturally reject single needles of newly elongated shoots and consume only tufted foliage from 1 year or older short shoots of tamarack, Larix laricina (Du Roi) K. Koch. Forest entomologists have recognized this unusual feeding behavior for over a century, but not until now has the mechanism been understood. In the bioassasy of unpurified single needle methanol extracts (concn. 1 g needle/ml), 88.5% of the larvae were feeding on the control end of the bioassay twig (solvent only) after 4 h. This was significantly different from a similar bioassay of tufted foliage extract (t-value significant at 0.02 level) and a non-treated control bioassay (distilled water on both ends of bioassay twig) (t-value significant at 0.01 level). In the bioassay of a purified extract of single tamarack needles (TLC fraction 7), 81% of larvae were feeding on the untreated end (t-value significant 0.02). Thin-layer chromatography fraction 7, of eight fractions delineated, alone induced significant feeding inhibition.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 111 , Issue 2 , February 1979 , pp. 165 - 169
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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