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Response of adult Colorado potato beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) to water in the landscape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2016

Gilles Boiteau  and
Pamela MacKinley
Gilles Boiteau*
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Potato Research Center, 850 Lincoln Road, PO Box 20280, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 4Z7, Canada
Pamela MacKinley
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Potato Research Center, 850 Lincoln Road, PO Box 20280, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 4Z7, Canada
*
1Corresponding author (e-mail: gilles.boiteau@agr.gc.ca).
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Abstract

This laboratory study confirmed that the strategy of adult terrestrial Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say); Coleoptera Chrysomelidae) to survive the threat of drowning in water is based on avoidance of water crossings. It also showed that beetles at the surface of a body of water after failing to avoid it, long considered limited to passive floating and phoretic transport were in fact likely to rely on a complex fight or flee response. Beetles showed capacity to swim in a pattern similar to land foraging beetles. Beetles also tolerated submergence and walked underwater. These active behaviours should improve their probability of finding shore or refuge for longer survival. Results confirmed that Colorado potato beetles are likely to accumulate near water features in the potato agro-ecosystem landscape but suggest that successful crossings and colonisation of crops on the other side are more likely than previously expected. On a larger scale, new information provided by this study combined with our knowledge of dominant winds and currents should make it possible for future research to better predict the probability of surviving encounters with water and the orientation of invasive Colorado potato beetle colonisers dispersing at the surface of bodies of water.

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Behaviour & Ecology
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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 149 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 174 - 190
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© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2016 

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