Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2012, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (19): 3980-3987.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2012.19.009

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Interspecific Competition Among Three Predacious Ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinelildae)

 WANG  Su, TAN  Xiao-Ling, XU  Hong-Xing, ZHANG  Fan   

  1. 1.北京市农林科学院植物保护环境保护研究所，北京 100097
    2.西北农林科技大学植物保护学院，陕西杨凌 712100
  • Received:2012-01-05 Online:2012-10-01 Published:2012-03-22

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Abstract: 【Objective】The objective of this study is to determine the population dynamics of various predacious ladybird beetles after mixed releasing in the field, the behavioural bases in interspecific disturbance and the interspecific competition in niche level. 【Method】The population dynamics of the three predacious ladybird beetles, Harmonia axyridis, Propylea japonica and Hippodamia variegate were monitored after they were introduced into agricultural ecosystem. The cannibalism was observed with 1st instar larvae to eggs and 4th instar larvae each other among these three intraguild predators. Based on the field survey, the food prey of these three ladybirds as different resource levels were separated, and the niche breadth and niche overlap index were calculated. 【Result】The total scale of population showed linear increasing in all three ladybirds, and the rate in H. axyridis population was higher than others significantly. The eggs preyed in all ladybirds were tended to heterogenetic egg and larvae. The amount of egg consume in H. axyridis was significantly higher than other two and over 25% both. H. axyridis also showed the highest survival rate and the lowest damaged rate in survival samples, the damaged rates were only 22.3% to P. japonica and 29.8% to H. variegate. The field investigation showed that H. axyridis, P. japonica and H. variegate could prey 17 species (89.5% of the total), 12 species (63.2% of the total) and 9 species (47.4% of the total), respectively. The calculated niche breadths of H. Axyridis, P. japonica, H. variegate were 0.713, 0.393 and 0.304, rspectively. The niche overlap indexes were showed as H. axyridis to P. japonica was 0.992, P. japonica to H. variegate was 0.983 and H. axyridis to H. variegate was 0.964. 【Conclusion】H. axyridis showed extremely high competition with other predacious ladybird in field application. H. axyridis could obtain benefits via interspecific attacking under rare nutrition conditions. The wider niche breadth and higher niche overlap level of H. axyridis could influence the population development and niche separation of other predacious ladybird beetles.

Key words: Harmonia axyridis, Propylea japonica, Hippodamia variegate, intraguild predation, competition modeling, niche overlap

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