Peter F. Reagel, reagel@life.uiuc.edu1, Emerson S. Lacey1, John F. Tooker, tooker@uiuc.edu2, Matthew D. Ginzel, ginzel@unr.edu3, Michael T. Smith, mtsmith@udel.edu4, and Lawrence M. Hanks1. (1) Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL, (2) Pennsylvania State University, Department of Entomology, 501 Ag Sciences and Industries Bldg, University Park, PA, (3) University of Nevada, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Reno, NV, (4) USDA-ARS, Beneficial Insects Introduction Research, 501 S. Chapel St, Newark, DE
Many species in the beetle family Cerambycidae are serious pests of trees in forests, plantations, and ornamental settings. Controlling the larva can be difficult because they develop in the woody tissues of host trees. Natural enemies, particularly parasitoids, can be important mortality factors of wood-boring beetles, and so have great potential as biological control agents. The vulnerability of larvae to parasitism, however, may depend on the tissues of the host plant in which larvae feed: larvae may feed in roots, branchlets, under bark, or deep within the heartwood. We will present an analysis of data from the world literature on the relationship between the feeding niche of cerambycid larvae and diversity of their parasitoids and parasitism rate.
Species 1: Coleoptera Cerambycidae
Anoplophora glabripennisSpecies 2: Coleoptera Cerambycidae
Phoracantha semipunctataKeywords: Natural Enemies, Conservation biologiacal control
