Flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda
The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), has invaded many countries in Africa and Asia since 2016, posing a major threat to world food security. Long-distance migration and strong reproductive ability form the biological basis of its rapid population expansion, but th...
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| author | Shi-shuai GE Wei HE Li-mei HE Ran YAN Hao-wen ZHANG Kong-ming WU |
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| description | The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), has invaded many countries in Africa and Asia since 2016, posing a major threat to world food security. Long-distance migration and strong reproductive ability form the biological basis of its rapid population expansion, but the relationship between the flight and reproduction of FAW has not been studied in depth. Here, an empirical assessment of this relationship in an invasive FAW population in China found that 1–3-day-old adults which had undergone 10-h tethered flights had a significantly shorter pre-oviposition period and greater oviposition synchronization, but did not show any differences in fecundity, oviposition period, mating percentage or other reproductive variables. Further studies on moths after 1.25–15-h tethered flights indicated that the reproductive process of adults could be fully triggered by flight activity longer than 2.5 h. Dissection of the reproductive organs also showed that tethered flight promoted ovarian and testicular development of FAW. These results show that appropriate moth flight activity significantly speeds up the reproductive process of FAW, which increases our knowledge on its migratory biology in relation to regional outbreaks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25a107b991ba4fbeb37ab596cade75982022-12-21T22:11:29ZengElsevierJournal of Integrative Agriculture2095-31192021-03-01203727735Flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperdaShi-shuai GE0Wei HE1Li-mei HE2Ran YAN3Hao-wen ZHANG4Kong-ming WU5State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, P.R.China; State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R.China; GE Shi-shuai, Mobile: +86-13101762404College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, P.R.ChinaState Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R.ChinaState Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R.ChinaState Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R.ChinaState Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R.China; Correspondence WU Kong-mingThe fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), has invaded many countries in Africa and Asia since 2016, posing a major threat to world food security. Long-distance migration and strong reproductive ability form the biological basis of its rapid population expansion, but the relationship between the flight and reproduction of FAW has not been studied in depth. Here, an empirical assessment of this relationship in an invasive FAW population in China found that 1–3-day-old adults which had undergone 10-h tethered flights had a significantly shorter pre-oviposition period and greater oviposition synchronization, but did not show any differences in fecundity, oviposition period, mating percentage or other reproductive variables. Further studies on moths after 1.25–15-h tethered flights indicated that the reproductive process of adults could be fully triggered by flight activity longer than 2.5 h. Dissection of the reproductive organs also showed that tethered flight promoted ovarian and testicular development of FAW. These results show that appropriate moth flight activity significantly speeds up the reproductive process of FAW, which increases our knowledge on its migratory biology in relation to regional outbreaks.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209531192063204Xflightreproductionmigrationinvasion biologymovement ecology |
| spellingShingle | Shi-shuai GE Wei HE Li-mei HE Ran YAN Hao-wen ZHANG Kong-ming WU Flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda Journal of Integrative Agriculture flight reproduction migration invasion biology movement ecology |
| title | Flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda |
| title_full | Flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda |
| title_fullStr | Flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda |
| title_short | Flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda |
| title_sort | flight activity promotes reproductive processes in the fall armyworm spodoptera frugiperda |
| topic | flight reproduction migration invasion biology movement ecology |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209531192063204X |
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