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Relationships of Natural Enemies and Non-prey Foods (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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Relationships of Natural Enemies and Non-prey Foods (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Series: Progress in Biological Control, 7
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Feeding on Non-Prey Resources by Natural Enemies Moshe Coll Reports
on the consumption of non-prey food sources, particularly plant
materials, by predators and parasitoids are common throughout the
literature (reviewed recently by Naranjo and Gibson 1996, Coll
1998a, Coll and Guershon, 2002). Predators belonging to a variety
of orders and families are known to feed on pollen and nectar, and
adult parasitoids acquire nutrients from honeydew and floral and
extrafloral nectar. A recent publication by Wackers et al. (2005)
discusses the p- visioning of plant resources to natural enemies
from the perspective of the plant, exploring the evolutionary
possibility that plants enhance their defenses by recru- ing
enemies to food sources. The present volume, in contrast, presents
primarily the enemies' perspective, and as such is the first
comprehensive review of the nut- tional importance of non-prey
foods for insect predators and parasitoids. Although the ecological
significance of feeding on non-prey foods has long been
underappreciated, attempts have been made to manipulate nectar and
pollen ava- ability in crop fields in order to enhance levels of
biological pest control by natural enemies (van Emden, 1965; Hagen,
1986; Coll, 1998a). The importance of n- prey foods for the
management of pest populations is also discussed in the book."
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