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Influence of Host Movement on Selection of Hosts by Drino bohemica Mesn. (Diptera: Tachinidae) as Determined in an Olfactometer1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

L. G. Monteith
L. G. Monteith
Affiliation:
Entomology Laboratory, Belleville, Ontario
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Two, or possibly three, types of stimuli that may influence host selection by entomophagous insects are produced by movements of the host or the prey. Movement may provide visual or tactile stimuli. Vibration caused by host movement may stimulate some species.

Tactile stimuli are produced by a host if it moves when touched by a parasite and are usually provided by a host that is enclosed in a case or a cocoon. Ullyert (1936), working with Dahlbominus fuscipennis (Zett.), and Williams (1951) and Thorpe and Jones (1937), working with Idechthis canescens (Grav.), found tactile stimuli an important factor in host selection, but Simmonds (1943) and Thompson and Parker (1927) concluded it was of little importance in I. canescens and Melittobia acasta Walk. respectively. Movement of potential prey upon contact stimulates attack by foraging ants (Vowels, 1955). Tactile stimuli produced by movement of the host may indicate an unsuitable host to the egg parasite Trichogramma evanescens Westw. (Salt, 1938).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 88 , Issue 10 , October 1956 , pp. 583 - 586
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1956

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