ArticleJournal of chemical ecology2014
Caught between parasitoids and predators - survival of a specialist herbivore on leaves and flowers of mustard plants.
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- Insect herbivory differentially affects the behaviour of two pollinators of Brassica rapa.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Oviposition strategies in Pieridae butterflies and the role of an egg-killing plant trait therein.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Density-Dependent Effects of Simultaneous Root and Floral Herbivory on Plant Fitness and Defense.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Mutualism has its limits: consequences of asymmetric interactions between a well-defended plant and its herbivorous pollinator.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The Early Season Community of Flower-Visiting Arthropods in a High-Altitude Alpine Environment.Insects · 2022Article
- Mutualist- and antagonist-mediated selection contribute to trait diversification of flowers.PeerJ · 2022Review
- Aphids Facing Their Parasitoids: A First Look at How Chemical Signals May Make Higher Densities of the Pea AphidInsects · 2021Article
- Multiple Attack to Inflorescences of an Annual Plant Does Not Interfere with the Attraction of Parasitoids and Pollinators.Journal of chemical ecology · 2021Article
- Floral plasticity: Herbivore-species-specific-induced changes in flower traits with contrasting effects on pollinator visitation.Plant, cell & environment · 2019Article
- Caterpillars induce jasmonates in flowers and alter plant responses to a second attacker.The New phytologist · 2018Article
- Floral volatiles interfere with plant attraction of parasitoids: ontogeny-dependent infochemical dynamics in Brassica rapa.BMC ecology · 2015Article
- To be in time: egg deposition enhances plant-mediated detection of young caterpillars by parasitoids.Oecologia · 2015Article
- Effects of Abiotic Factors on HIPV-Mediated Interactions between Plants and Parasitoids.BioMed research international · 2015Review
- Midgut serine proteases and alternative host plant utilization in Pieris brassicae L.Frontiers in physiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
The survival of insect herbivores typically is constrained by food choice and predation risk. Here, we explored whether movement from leaves to flowers increases survival of herbivores that prefer to feed on floral tissues. Combining field and greenhouse experiments, we investigated whether flowering influences the behavior of Pieris brassicae butterflies and caterpillars and, consequently, herbivore survival in the field. In this context, we investigated also if flowers of Brassica nigra can provide caterpillars refuge from the specialist parasitoid Cotesia glomerata and from predatory social wasps. By moving to flowers, caterpillars escaped from the parasitoid. Flowers are nutritionally superior when compared with leaves, and caterpillars develop faster when feeding on flowers. However, late-stage caterpillars can be preyed upon intensively by social wasps, irrespective of whether they feed on leaves or flowers. We conclude that flower preference by P. brassicae is more likely driven by nutritional advantages and reduced parasitism on flowers, than by risks of being killed by generalist predators.
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