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The bean beetle (Acanthoscelides obtectus) and its host, the French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): a two-way colonization story

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Biological Invasions in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin

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Phaseolus vulgaris and Acanthoscelides obtectus originated from Central America. But, outside equatorial America, where mature pods (of wild or cultivated beans) are present all the year in field, bean pods occur only during restricted periods of the year. In such regions, the bean bruchid exists as a domestic, man-dependent insect. Its ability to reproduce in stored seeds allows it to expand its range in anthropogenic habitats by developing alternatively in the field during the ripening time of pods, and during the rest of the year in stored seeds. Reproduction in the stores is allowed by the ability to oviposit in spite of suppression of the first sequencies of the original egg-laying behaviour, i.e. flight to mature pods, prospection of pods, holing of pods by mandibles. In stores, it glues eggs directly to the seeds tegument. Growing in stores, it can live temporarily each year in fields, during the ripening of pods, where climatic conditions in the remainder of the year are inconsistent with its biological constraints.

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Labeyrie, V. (1990). The bean beetle (Acanthoscelides obtectus) and its host, the French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): a two-way colonization story. In: di Castri, F., Hansen, A.J., Debussche, M. (eds) Biological Invasions in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1876-4_14

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