Relationships of Natural Enemies and Non-Prey Foods

• Main Author: Lundgren, Jonathan G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Progress in Biological Control ; 7
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant pathology.; Zoology.; Invertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.; Plant Sciences.

There are very few natural enemies so maladapted as to rely on prey as their sole nutritional resource. The importance of non-prey sources of nutrition have received disproportionately less attention than prey when one considers how important non-prey foods are to the evolution and ecology of natura...

Table of Contents:

• Glucophagy
• The Functions of Non-Prey Foods in the Diets of Entomophagous Species
• The Sugar Feeders
• Floral Nectar
• Extrafloral Nectar
• Honeydew
• Pollinivory
• The Pollen Feeders
• Adaptations to Pollen feeding
• Pollen Nutrition and Defense
• Granivory
• The Seed Feeders
• Adaptations to Granivory
• Seed Nutrition and Defense
• Seed-Associated Food Bodies
• Seed Preferences of Natural Enemies
• Fungi and Microorganisms
• Mycophagy
• Symbioses with Microorganisms
• Applied Aspects of Non-Prey Foods for Natural Enemies
• Non-Prey Foods and Biological Control of Arthropods
• Plant-Incorporated Pest Resistance and Natural Enemies
• Biological Control of Weed Seeds in Agriculture Using Omnivorous Insects
• Conclusions and the Relative Quality of Non-Prey Foods for Natural Enemies.