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The effects of thirteen species of aphids on some life history parameters of the ladybird Coccinella septempunctata

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The prediction of impact ofcoccinellids in an aphid infested crop dependson the food specificity of the predator. Theresponse towards thirteen species of aphids(Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae) was thereforetested in the most abundant aphidophagouscoccinellid Coccinella septempunctata L.(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). All aphidspecies studied (Eucalipterus tiliae(L.), Tuberculatus annulatus (L.), Euceraphis betulae (L.), Cavariellakonoi Takahashi, Liosomaphis berberidis(Kaltenbach), Acyrthosiphon ignotumMordvilko, Aphis spiraephaga Müller,Aphis fabae Scopoli, Macrosiphoniella artemisiae Boyer de Fonscolombe, Capitophorus hippophaeus(Walk.), Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris),Aphis craccivora Koch, Sitobionavenae (Fabricius) were suitable foodaccording to the rate of larval development,larval mortality and adult fresh weight.Females of C. septempunctata fed with A. pisum and S. avenae laid twice as manyeggs as those fed with A. fabae and A. craccivora. These data are needed foreffective mass rearing of the studiedcoccinellid species.

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Kalushkov, P., Hodek, I. The effects of thirteen species of aphids on some life history parameters of the ladybird Coccinella septempunctata . BioControl 49, 21–32 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BICO.0000009385.90333.b4

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