coccinellids play a major role in aphid control. hippodamia variegata goeze is an aphidophagous predator of worldwide distribution that could be found in different parts of iran. one of the criteria for evaluating the efficiency of a predator is its response to change in prey population density (functional response). the functional responses of males and females of hippodamia variegata were stu...

Regulation of the temperature at which insects freeze is a critical factor in their overwintering survival. Although the role of ice-nucleating active bacteria in promoting frost-damage in plants is well known, their interaction with other organisms has not been described. In winter. many freeze-susceptible insects avoid freezing by lowering the temperature at which their body fluids spontaneou...

شرایط اکولوژیک مثل دسترسی به غذای کافی و مناسب از عواملی است که می‌تواند روی رفتار جانوران تاثیرگذار باشد. حشرات مختلفی در زمان گرسنگی سعی می‌کنند تا رفتارهای آمیزشی طول مدت آمیزش را کاهش دهند. هدف این مطالعه، بررسی اثر بر عملکرد کفشدوزک Hippodamia variegata بود. آزمایش، نرها ماده‌های ۱۰ ۱۵ روزه باکره استفاده شد. هر تکرار، یک نر ماده ۳ ساعت (از ۱۲ الی ۱۵) برای کنار هم قرار داده شدند ‌زمان تاخیر...

Adult aphid predators disperse across the landscape seasonally in search of prey aggregations that are patchily distributed and temporally variable. However, flight is energetically costly consumes resources could be invested reproduction. Hippodamia convergens an important predator North American cereal crops other agricultural systems. Consumption floral can enhance adult survival during peri...

The suitability of two prey species, Aphis pomi De Geer (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and Brevicoryne brassicae (L.), for two generalist aphidophagous coccinellids, Adalia tetraspilota (Hope) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Hippodamia variegata (Goeze), at various abundance levels was investigated under laboratory conditions. While both A. pomi and B. brassicae were found to be suitable, the predators...