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Common Mortality Factors of Woodwasp Larvae in Three Northeastern United States Host Species Author(S): Kelley E Common Mortality Factors of Woodwasp Larvae in Three Northeastern United States Host Species Author(s): Kelley E. Zylstra and Victor C. Mastro Source: Journal of Insect Science, 12(83):1-8. 2012. Published By: Entomological Society of America DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.012.8301 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1673/031.012.8301 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 12 | Article 83 Zylstra and Mastro Common mortality factors of woodwasp larvae in three northeastern United States host species Kelley E. Zylstra1a* and Victor C. Mastro2b 1U. S. Department of Agriculture, APHIS, PPQ, 374 Northern Lights Dr. North Syracuse NY 13212. [email protected] 2U. S. Department of Agriculture, APHIS, PPQ, 1398 West Truck Rd., Buzzards Bay, MA 02542. [email protected] Abstract Very little is presently known about the natural enemies and mortality factors associated with siricids (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) in the United States of America (USA), especially those that may directly affect the woodwasp, Sirex noctilio Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Siricidae). S. noctilio is an invasive woodwasp, is considered a major economic pest of pine, and has a severe effect on North American pine species planted in the Southern hemisphere. The mortality factors of siricid larvae were determined in three host species (Pinus sylvestris, Pinus resinosa, and Pinus strobus) from naturally infested trees in the northeastern USA. Siricid larvae were classified at the time of sampling as: (1) healthy, (2) parasitized by rhyssines (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), (3) parasitized by Ibalia spp. (Hymenoptera: Ibaliidae), (4) parasitized by nematodes (Tylenchida: Neotylenchidae), and (5) dead from unknown causes. Combining data from the three host species, the average percentage of larvae that were healthy was 66%, 10% of the larvae were parasitized by rhyssines, 18% were parasitized by Ibalia spp., 1% were infected with unidentified nematodes, and about 5% of the larvae were dead in the galleries. Information from this study has important implications for understanding population regulation mechanisms in an invasive species, and will be critical for developing integrated pest management plans for S. noctilio. Keywords: Sirex noctilio, parasitoids Correspondence: a [email protected], b [email protected], *Corresponding author Editor: Nadir Erbilgin was Editor of this paper. Received: 24 July 2011, Accepted: 2 April 2012 Copyright : This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed. ISSN: 1536-2442 | Vol. 12, Number 83 Cite this paper as: Zylstra KE, Mastro VC. 2012. Common mortality factors of woodwasp larvae in three northeastern United States host species. Journal of Insect Science 12:83 available online: insectscience.org/12.83 Journal of Insect Science | www.insectscience.org 1 Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 12 | Article 83 Zylstra and Mastro Introduction Materials and Methods In the northeastern United States there are Sites and Host Trees. Field sampling was more than half a dozen different native siricid conducted during December and January of species that utilize hardwoods and conifers 2007 and 2008 in pine stands that had known (Smith and Schiff 2002). Recently an exotic infestations of S. noctilio. Two different field woodwasp, Sirex noctilio Fabricius sites were chosen for each host tree species, (Hymoneptera: Siricidae), was introduced into Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris L., red pine, P. New York state. It kills living pine trees resinosa Solander ex Alton, and white pine, P. (Hoebeke et al. 2005) and has since been strobus L. (Pinales: Pinaceae) per sampled found in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Vermont, year, for a total of four sites per host species. Ohio, and Connecticut. In its native Eurasian Field sites were unmanaged pine stands range, S. noctilio is considered a secondary located in Oswego and Onondaga counties in pest. However, where the insect has invaded central New York, USA. Five host trees were the southern hemisphere, it has been felled at each field site, resulting in a total of responsible for large economic losses to pine 20 trees felled per host species, and 60 trees industries (Carnegie et al. 2006), primarily in felled between the two years of the study. The commercial plantations of North American DBH of the trees chosen ranged from 6.5 - 9 pine species. It is considered one of the most inches. Host trees, symptomatic to a S. economically important pests of pine noctilio infestation, were chosen based on (Fernandez-Arhex and Corley 2005). In those crown decay class, resin class, other insect areas where S. noctilio has become established activity (Coleoptera: Scolytidae, there are few wood-boring insects attacking Cerambycidae, Buprestidae), and woodpecker the trees, unlike the U.S., which has many activity. Trees were felled, and ten bolts of the native pine boring insect communities (Dodds same approximate length (51 cm) were chosen et al. 2010). Many of the southern hemisphere at random from the whole length of each tree. countries introduced ichneumonid and Bolts were labeled and brought back to the nematode parasitoids as potential biological USDA laboratory in North Syracuse, NY. control organisms to combat S. noctilio (Cameron 1962, 1963, 1965; Bedding 1974). Splitting & Surveying. In the laboratory, In the northeastern USA, hymenopterous each bolt was split using a 4-ton electric log parasitoids that are known to use siricids as splitter (Ryobi Limited, USA Inc.). Bolts were hosts include the genera Megarhyssa, Rhyssa, split length-wise into pieces of approximately and Ibalia. Nematodes in genus Deladenus one-half inch or less width. All larvae were (Tylenchida: Neotylenchidae) are also present collected, identified to family, and tallied. in the northeast, and parasitize siricids, Currently, there is no morphological key for creating sterile females (Bedding 1978). The identifying siricid larvae, and molecular objective of this study was to assess the techniques were not developed and available common mortality factors of siricid larvae, at the time that this study took place. and to assess to what extent parasitism was Therefore, all horntail larvae were identified occurring within S. noctilio colonized pine to family only. stands in the northeastern USA. Journal of Insect Science | www.insectscience.org 2 Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 12 | Article 83 Zylstra and Mastro Dead siricid larvae were tallied, and typically by rhyssines), “H” denotes the number of either had a completely blackened cuticle, or healthy larvae found throughout the 200 log were covered in a white or green fungus. bolt samples per host species, “R” denotes the Siricid larvae that were parasitized by number of rhyssine larvae, “I” denotes the rhyssines (Ichnuemonidae: Rhyssinae) were number of Ibalia spp. larvae, “N” denotes the tallied during examination of the siricid number of siricid larvae that had nematodes gallery because they are ectoparasitoids, and inside the body cavity, and “D” denotes the easily detectable on a siricid larva. All other number of siricid larvae found dead from live siricid larvae were placed individually in other or unknown causes in the galleries. vials sorted by tree, and dissected to determine if they had been parasitized by An Oneway ANOVA was used to analyze the Ibalia spp. (Ibaliidae) or parasitic nematodes arcsin square root transformation of the (Deladenus spp.). proportion of siricid larvae found in each mortality category by host species. Each tree The remaining siricid larvae that were not was considered a replicate. An Oneway dead or parasitized were considered to be ANOVA was also used to analyze the distance healthy at the time of sampling. In addition, of siricid galleries to the bark edge by host 20 siricid galleries, chosen at random from species, with each gallery treated as a several different log billets from several trees replicate. A Tukey-Kramer HSD was used for of each tree species, were measured (mm) analysis among treatments for statistically from the center of the long axis of the gallery significant results (JMP 8.0, SAS Institute to the edge of the bark layer in order to Inc., 2008). determine if gallery depth has an effect on parasitism. Results Data analysis. Data presented as the overall Because the trees sampled were symptomatic percentage of larvae in each mortality to S. noctilio infestation, it is presumed that category (i.e., healthy, dead, parasitized, etc.) most of the larvae sampled were S. noctilio. were estimated using the following formula, However, molecular confirmations were not modeled after Fukuda and Hijii (1996): used in identification of the larvae, and so they are referred to as siricids because of the possibility of native species being present. Among the three different host species, a total where “X” is the number in the mortality of 2,125 siricid larvae were found in the category being determined (i.e., % parasitism sampled Scots pine trees, 443 in the red pine, Table 1. The total number (and percentage) of larvae found in each mortality category from 200 billets out of the 20 trees of each host species that were examined.
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