Insectivorous Birds Are Attracted by Plant Traits Induced by Insect Egg Deposition
Jazyk angličtina Země Spojené státy americké Médium print-electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články
Grantová podpora
257581
Academy of Finland
PubMed
30417204
DOI
10.1007/s10886-018-1034-1
PII: 10.1007/s10886-018-1034-1
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- Klíčová slova
- Insect egg deposition, Light reflectance, Olfaction, Terpenoids, Vision, Volatile organic compounds,
- MeSH
- borovice lesní chemie metabolismus parazitologie MeSH
- chování zvířat MeSH
- Hymenoptera růst a vývoj fyziologie MeSH
- interakce hostitele a parazita MeSH
- ovum fyziologie MeSH
- Passeriformes fyziologie MeSH
- plynová chromatografie s hmotnostně spektrometrickou detekcí MeSH
- seskviterpeny chemie metabolismus MeSH
- spektrofotometrie MeSH
- těkavé organické sloučeniny chemie metabolismus MeSH
- zraková percepce MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Názvy látek
- beta-farnesene MeSH Prohlížeč
- seskviterpeny MeSH
- těkavé organické sloučeniny MeSH
Insectivorous birds feed upon all developmental stages of herbivorous insects, including insect eggs if larvae and adults are unavailable. Insect egg deposition on plants can induce plant traits that are subsequently exploited by egg parasitoids searching for hosts. However, it is unknown whether avian predators can also use egg-induced plant changes for prey localization. Here, we studied whether great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) are attracted by traits of the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) induced by pine sawfly (Diprion pini) egg deposition. We chose this plant - insect system because sawfly egg deposition on pine needles is known to locally and systemically induce a change in pine volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and tits are known to prey upon sawfly eggs. In dual choice laboratory experiments, we simultaneously offered the birds an egg-free control branch and a systemically egg-induced branch. Significantly more birds visited the egg-induced branch first. We confirmed by GC-MS analyses that systemically egg-induced branches released more (E)-β-farnesene compared to control branches. Spectrophotometric analyses showed that control branches reflected more light than egg-induced branches throughout the avian visual range. Although a discrimination threshold model for blue tits suggests that the birds are poor at discriminating this visual difference, the role of visual stimuli in attracting the birds to egg-induced pines cannot be discounted. Our study shows, for the first time, that egg-induced odorous and/or visual plant traits can help birds to locate insect eggs without smelling or seeing those eggs.
Animal Behaviour Institute of Biology Freie Universität Berlin Takustr 6 DE 14195 Berlin Germany
Chair of Zoology Technische Universität München Liesel Beckmann Str 4 DE 85350 Freising Germany
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Insectivorous birds can see and smell systemically herbivore-induced pines