APHID PREY OF PASSALOECUS-CUSPIDATUS (HYMENOPTERA, SPHECIDAE)

Authors
FRICKE JM
Citation
Jm. Fricke, APHID PREY OF PASSALOECUS-CUSPIDATUS (HYMENOPTERA, SPHECIDAE), Great Lakes entomologist, 26(1), 1993, pp. 31-34
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Great Lakes entomologist → ACNP
ISSN journal
00900222
Volume
26
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
31 - 34
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-0222(1993)26:1<31:APOP(S>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Provisioning activity of Passaloecus cuspidatus extended from 29 May t hrough 6 August 1987. Eighty trap-nests contained 281 provisioned cell s containing 9,618 aphids. The average number of aphids per cell was 3 4.2 and the average number of cells provisioned per day was 0.73. Pass aloecus cuspidatus stored the following aphids as provisions: Cinaria sp., Euceraphis sp., Macrosiphum euphorbiae, Myzus sp., Myzus cerasi, Myzus monardae, and Sitobium avenae. The number of aphids provisioned er cell was inversely related to aphid size. The number of aphids prov isioned per cell varied significantly (9-74).