| Issue № 1 |
Original research |
pdf-version |
Imago feeding preference of the black fir sawyer Monochamus urussovi Fisch. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
| Grodnitsky Dmitry | D. Sc., Krasnoyarsk institute for teachers' postgraduate education, 660079 Matrosova st.,19, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, dmi.grod@gmail.com |
| Gurov Andrey | PhD., V.N.Sukachev Institute of Forest Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Academgorodok, 50/28, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia, dmi.grod@gmail.com |
|
Keywords: Black fir sawyer minor black sawyer Siberian fir imago feeding preference mass outbreaks |
Summary: Mass outbreaks of the black fir sawyer M. urussovi regularly occur in forest stands dominated by Siberian fir Abies sibirica; outbreaks have been observed only on fir and exclusively in Siberia, although the beetle is also found in the vast territory including Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, Russian Far East and Japan. A closely related common species M. sutor has never produced outbreaks; its larvae have been registered only in Scots pine. Feeding preferences of the two species were compared under experimental conditions; total numbers of tested specimens were 132 (M. urussovi) and 40 (M. sutor). M. sutor beetles were caught in nature, M. urussovi pupas and young adults were collected from fir trunks; pupas were reared to beetles. Each beetle was placed into a covered plastic enclosure for 24 hours and offered cut shoots of fir, spruce, Siberian pine, Scots pine, larch, birch and willow; all cuts were of the same length and diameter, needles and leaves had been previously removed. Beetles of the two species showed different feeding preference. M. sutor imagoes completely ignored fir shoots, definitely preferring Scots pine. M. urussovi feeding behavior was different: beetles did consume bark, bast and cambium of fir. However, they were mainly fed on Scots pine shoots. Feeding preference given to Scots pine by beetles grown in fir trunks can be explained by the hypothesis that this species originated on pine. Mass outbreaks of M. urussovi in Siberian fir-dominated forest ecosystems occur, because these plant communities are historically young (evidently much less than 10 000 years) and yet unbalanced, transitional sort of ecosystems, so fir did not have enough evolutionary time to get adapted to injure by the sawyer and Ophiostoma fungi carried by beetles. © Petrozavodsk State University |
Received on: 27 October 2016 Published on: 27 March 2017 | |
References
Agafonova T. A. Antonov I. A. Catalogue of wood-boring insects feeding on conifers at Baykal Siberia and northern part of Amur basin. Irkutsk: Izd-vo In-ta geografii im. V. B. Sochavy SO RAN, 2014. 215 p.
Andreeva T. P. Siberian forest insects. The first colored atlas for forestry specialists. Krasnoyarsk: Centr zaschity lesa, 1999. 96 p.
Bogdanova D. A. Problems of injurious insects population dynamics in taiga stands. Krasnoyarsk: Izd-vo Instituta lesa i drevesiny im. V. N. Sukacheva SO AN SSSR, 1976. P. 12–29.
Comprehensive Soviet encyclopedia. M.: Sovetskaya enciklopediya, 1972. T. 9. 624 p.
Vetrova V. P. Impact scared and dense populations of the black fir sawyer on fir stands, Lesovedenie. 1986. No. 1. P. 43–50.
Vetrova V. P. Ecological relations between black fir sawyer and Siberian fir in taiga ecosystems. Krasnoyarsk, 1987. 22 p.
Vetrova V. P. Isaev A. S. Pashenova N. V. Konstantinov M. Yu. Assessment of damage to Lower Angara taiga conifer stands from black fir sawyer mass outbreaks after outbreaks of Siberian lappet moth, Lesovedenie. 1998. No. 3. P. 58–67.
Vetrova V. P. Pashenova N. V. Grodnickiy D. L. A response of Siberian fir to inoculation with symbiotic fungi of black fir sawyer, Lesovedenie. 1992. No. 3. P. 24–32.
Dictionary of geology. M.: Nedra, 1973. T. 2. 456 p.
Grodnickiy D. L. Siberian lappet moth and the destiny of fir-dominated forest, Priroda. 2004. No. 11. P. 49–56.
Grodnickiy D. L. Raznobarskiy V. G. Soldatov V. V. Remarchuk N. P. Collapse of forest stands in taiga ecosystems damaged by the Siberian lappet moth, Sibirskiy ekologicheskiy zhurnal. 2002. T. 9. No. 1. Prilozhenie. P. 3–12.
Gusev V. I. Guide to damage symptoms found in forest and fruit trees and bushes. M.: Lesnaya promyshlennost', 1984. 472 p.
Zemkova R. I. Wood-boring insects of the Western Sayan dark-conifer forests. Krasnoyarsk: ILiD SO AN SSSR, 1965. 123 p.
Isaev A. S. Black fir sawyer population dynamics and forest protection measures in Central Siberia fir stands, Problemy zaschity taezhnyh lesov. Krasnoyarsk, 1971. P. 61–64.
Isaev A. S. Kiselev V. V. Vetrova V. P. Imago feeding of black fir sawyer and its influence on host plant, Konsortivnye svyazi dereva i dendrofil'nyh nasekomyh. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1982. P. 19–27.
Isaev A. S. Rozhkov A. S. Kiselev V. V. Black fir sawyer Monochamus urussovi (Fisch.). Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1988. 396 p.
Kondakov Yu. P. Knor I. B. Petrenko E. S. Ecologically and industrially important groups of insects of the Baykal basin, Fauna lesov basseyna ozera Baykal. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1979. P. 44–77.
Kolomiec N. G. Resumed results of study of insects damaging Siberian pine and probable measures of their suppression, Problemy kedra, Tr. po lesnomu hozyaystvu Sibiri. Vyp. 6. 1960. P. 175–183.
Krivoluckaya G. O. Wood-boring insects of dark-conifer forest ecosystems in the West Siberia. M.; L.: Nauka, 1965. 129 p.
Nikitskiy N. B. Izhevskiy S. S. Wood-boring beetles damaging trees in Russia. M.: Lesnaya promyshlennost', 2005. 120 p.
Prozorov S. S. Black fir sawyer Monochamus urussovi Fisch. and Siberian fir, Trudy Sibirskogo lesotehnicheskogo instituta. 1958. Sb. 21. Vyp. 2. P. 15–121.
Petrenko E. S. Injurious insects in Yakutia forest ecosystems. M.: Nauka, 1965. 167 p.
Savina L. N. The newest history of forest ecosystems in the Western Sayan mountains (based on spore and pollen soil analyses). Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1976. 158 p.
Savina L. N. North Asia taiga within Holocene. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1986. 191 p.
Shabalina O. M. Raznobarskiy V. G. Grodnickiy D. L. Grass cover and young trees in ecosystems damaged by Siberian lappet moth, Sibirskiy ekologicheskiy zhurnal. 2002. T. 9. No. 1. Prilozhenie. P. 23–32.
Amman G. Characteristics of mountain pine beetles reared in four pine hosts, Environmental Entomology. 1982. Vol. 11. No. 3. P. 590–593.
Nylin S., Janz N. Host plant preferences in the comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album): Do parents and offspring agree?, Ecoscience. 1996. Vol. 3. No. 3. P. 285–289.
© 2011 - 2024
Petrozavodsk State University
technical support - RCNIT
The editor-in-chief - Andrey Korosov
ecopri@petrsu.ru