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Preference and performance of the sawfly Diprion pini on host and non‐host plants of the genus Pinus
Author(s) -
Barre Florence,
Milsant Frédéric,
Palasse Cécile,
Prigent Véronique,
Goussard Francis,
Géri Claude
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
entomologia experimentalis et applicata
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.765
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1570-7458
pISSN - 0013-8703
DOI - 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2002.00944.x
Subject(s) - biology , sawfly , host (biology) , larva , pest analysis , hatching , botany , bark beetle , colonization , ecology , zoology , curculionidae
The sawfly, Diprion pini L., is a pest of Pinus in Europe and is mainly found on P. sylvestris L. and P. nigra laricio Poiret. The relative importance of female oviposition capacity and behaviour, egg development, and larval survival on a new host plant was measured on 11 pine species. Five were natural host plants and six non‐host plants, five of which are not indigenous to Europe. Oviposition choice tests showed that females discriminated between the pine species. Egg and larval development also differed between pine species. However, the female choice was not linked with hatching rate and larval development. Results of biological tests clearly indicated that there were different response patterns of D. pini life stages in relation to pine species, and these patterns were the same with insects of four different origins. We discuss the importance of each potential barrier to colonisation of a new host.