Plant-Provided Food for Carnivorous Insects: Suitability of (extra-)floral nectar, pollen, and honeydew as insect food sources

By Felix L. Wäckers. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Honeydew as a food source for natural enemies: Making the best of a bad meal? (2008, unknown): “This applies in particular to agricultural eco-systems, where nectar sources are often scarce (Wa¨ckers, 2005).”
Effects of nitrogen fertilization on tritrophic interactions (2010, background): “Plants as food and shelter of natural enemies Many insect predators feed on pollen as supplemental food, whereas the prevalence of pollen-feeding in parasitoids seems to be rather uncommon (reviews in Wäckers 2005).”
Genetically engineered crops help support conservation biological control (2019, background): “Consequently, aphid honeydew, which is an important source of energy for both predators and parasitoids (Wäckers, 2005), is a negligible route of exposure to plant-produced Bt proteins (Fig.”
Field margin vegetation enhances biological control and crop damage suppression from multiple pests in organic tomato fields (2014, background): “Most hymenopteran parasitoids, and many predators, have short mouthparts and fulfil their energy requirements by feeding on relatively accessible sugar sources, such as exposed floral and extrafloral nectar (Jervis et al., 1993; W€ackers, 2005; W€ackers & van Rijn, 2012).”
Vegetation increases the abundance of natural enemies in vineyards (2009, background): “Floral and extrafloral nectars are significant sources of nutrition for most adult predatory mites, lacewings, parasitoids, Cecidomyiidae, Tachinidae and syrphids, (Sommaggio, 1999; Wäckers, 2005).”
Ecological compatibility of GM crops and biological control (2009, unknown): “These foods sustain biological control agents when high-quality prey are scarce, and support various life-history functions, such as reproduction, dispersal, diapause and other physiological and metabolic processes (Hagen, 1986; Coll and Guershon, 2002; Wa¨ckers, 2005; Lundgren, 2009).”