The nectar alkaloid, gelsemine, does not affect offspring performance of a native solitary bee, Osmia lignaria (Megachilidae)

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 298-304

  Elliott, Susan E ^a   Irwin, Rebecca E ^a   Adler, Lynn S ^b   Williams, Neal M ^c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gelsemine; Gelsemium sempervirens; Insect foraging; Osmia lignaria; Pollinator performance; Secondary compounds; Toxic nectar

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; BEE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; NECTAR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLINATOR; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; VINE;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; GELSEMIUM; GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS; HEXAPODA; LOGANIACEAE; MEGACHILIDAE; OSMIA LIGNARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 40349094562     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00974.x     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Adler, L.S 2000) The ecological significance of toxic nectar. Oikos, 91, 409 420.
2. Adler, L.S. Irwin, R.E 2005) Ecological costs and benefits of defenses in nectar. Ecology, 86, 2968 2978.
3. Awmack, C.S. Leather, S.R 2002) Host plant quality and fecundity in herbivorous insects. Annual Review of Entomology, 47, 817 844.
4. Baker, H.G 1977) Non-sugar chemical constituents of nectar. Apidologie, 8, 349 356.
5. Barker, A.M. Maczka, C.J.M 1996) The relationships between host selection and subsequent larval performance in three free-living graminivorous sawflies. Ecological Entomology, 21, 317 327.
6. Bernays, E.A 1991) Evolution of insect morphology in relation to plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences, 333, 257 264.
7. Bernays, E.A 1999) Plasticity and the problem of choice in food selection. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 92, 944 951.
8. Bosch, J. Kemp, W.P 2000) Development and emergence of the orchard pollinator Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Environmental Entomology, 29, 8 13.
9. Bosch, J. Kemp, W.P 2001) How to Manage the Blue Orchard Bee. Sustainable Agriculture Network, Beltsville, Maryland.
10. Burnside, C.E. Vansell, G.H 1936). Plant Poisoning of Bees, Report No. E-398. USDA, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Washington, District of Columbia.
11. Chapin, F.S., Vitousek, P.M. Cleve, K.V 1986) The nature of nutrient limitation in plant communities. American Naturalist, 127, 48 58.
12. Chittka, L. Thomson, J.D 2001) Cognitive Ecology of Pollination: Animal Behavior and Floral Evolution. University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
13. Cole, R.A 1997) The relative importance of glucosinolates and amino acids to the development of two aphid pests Brevicoryne brassicae and Myzus persicae on wild and cultivated brassica species. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 85, 121 133.
14. Craig, T.P., Itami, J.K. Price, P.W 1989) A strong relationship between oviposition preference and larval Performance in a shoot-galling sawfly. Ecology, 70, 1691 1699.
15. Craig, T.P. Ohgushi, T 2002) Preference and performance are correlated in the spittlebug Aphrophora pectoralis on four species of willow. Ecological Entomology, 27, 529 540.
16. Detzel, A. Wink, M 1993) Attraction, deterrence or intoxication of bees (Apis mellifera) by plant allelochemicals. Chemoecology, 4, 8 18.
17. Eckert, J.E 1946). Injury to bees by poisoning. The Hive and the Honey Bee (ed. by R. A. Grout pp. 570 582. Dadant and Sons, Hamilton, Illinois.
18. Ehrlich, P.R. Raven, P.H 1964) Butterflies and plants-a study in coevolution. Evolution, 18, 586 608.
19. Euler, M. Baldwin, I.T 1996) The chemistry of defense and apparency in the corollas of Nicotiana attenuata. Oecologia, 107, 102 112.
20. Fritz, R.S. Simms, E.L ed 1992) Plant Resistance to Herbivores and Pathogens: Ecology, Evolution, and Genetics. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
21. Futuyma, D.J., Keese, M.C. Funk, D.J 1995) Genetic constraints on macroevolution-the evolution of host affiliation in the leaf beetle genus Ophraella. Evolution, 49, 797 809.
22. Gegear, R.J., Manson, J.S. Thomson, J.D 2007) Ecological context influences pollinator deterrence by alkaloids in floral nectar. Ecology Letters, 10, 375 382.
23. Groenteman, R., Guershon, M. Coll, M 2006) Effects of leaf nitrogen content on oviposition site selection, offspring performance, and intraspecific interactions in an omnivorous bug. Ecological Entomology, 31, 155 161.
24. Hagler, J.R. Buchmann, S.L 1993) Honey-bee (Hymenoptera, Apidae) foraging responses to phenolic-rich nectars. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 66, 223 230.
25. Hardin, J.W. Arena, J.M 1969) Human Poisoning from Native and Cultivated Plants. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina.
26. Hartmann, T 1991) Alkaloids. Herbivores: Their Interactions with Secondary Metabolites (ed. by G. Rosenthal and M. Berenbaum pp. 79 116. Academic Press, San Diego, California.
27. Hartmann, T. Ober, D 2000) Biosynthesis and metabolism of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in plants and specialized insect herbivores. Topics in Current Chemistry, Vol 209, 207 243.
28. Heinrich, B 1979) Bumblebee Economics Harvard. University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
29. Holland, J.N., Buchanan, A.L. Loubeau, R 2004) Oviposition choice and larval survival of an obligately pollinating granivorous moth. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6, 607 618.
30. Irwin, R.E. Adler, L.S 2006) Correlations among traits associated with herbivore resistance and pollination: implications for pollination and nectar robbing in a distylous plant. American Journal of Botany, 93, 64 72.
31. Johnson, S.D., Hargreaves, A.L. Brown, M 2006) Dark, bitter-tasting nectar functions as a filter of flower visitors in a bird-pollinated plant. Ecology, 87, 2709 2716.
32. Kevan, P.G. Ebert, T 2005) Can almond nectar & pollen poison honey bees? American Bee Journal, 145, 507 509.
33. Kim, J.Y 1997) Female size and fitness in the leaf-cutter bee Megachile apicalis. Ecological Entomology, 22, 275 282.
34. Kingsbury, J.M 1964) Poisonous Plants of the United States and Canada. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
35. Krombein, K.V 1967) Trap-Nesting Wasps and Bees: Life Histories, Nests and Associates. Smithsonian Press, Washington, District of Columbia.
36. Liu, F.L. Fu, W.J 2004) Plant with toxic nectar kills native honey bees in SW China. American Bee Journal, 144, 707 708.
37. Liu, F.L., He, J.Z. Fu, W.J 2005) Highly controlled nest homeostasis of honey bees helps deactivate phenolics in nectar. Naturwissenschaften, 92, 297 299.
38. London-Shafir, I., Shafir, S. Eisikowitch, D 2003) Amygdalin in almond nectar and pollen-facts and possible roles. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 238, 87 95.
39. Macel, M., Bruinsma, M., Dijkstra, S.M., Ooijendijk, T., Niemeyer, H.M. Klinkhamer, P.G.L 2005) Differences in effects of pyrrolizidine alkaloids on five generalist insect herbivore species. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 31, 1493 1508.
40. Macel, M., Klinkhamer, P.G.L., Vrieling, K. van der Meijden, E 2002) Diversity of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in Senecio species does not affect the specialist herbivore Tyria jacobaeae. Oecologia, 133, 541 550.
41. Manson, J.S., Lachance, M.A. Thomson, J.D 2007) Candida gelsemii sp nov., a yeast of the Metschnikowiaceae clade isolated from nectar of the poisonous Carolina jessamine. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, 92, 37 42.
42. Mayhew, P.J 1997) Adaptive patterns of host-plant selection by phytophagous insects. Oikos, 79, 417 428.
43. Mayhew, P.J 2001) Herbivore host choice and optimal bad motherhood. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 16, 165 167.
44. McCall, A.C. Karban, R 2006) Induced defense in Nicotiana attenuata (Solanaceae) fruit and flowers. Oecologia, 146, 566 571.
45. Ornduff, R 1970) Systematics and breeding system of Gelsemium (Loganiaceae). Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, 51, 1 17.
46. Power, M.E., Dietrich, W.E. Sullivan, K.O 1998). Experimentation, observation, and inference in river and watershed investigations. Experimental Ecology Issues and Perspectives (ed. by W. J. J. Resetarits pp. 113 132. Oxford University Press, New York.
47. Quinn, G. Keough, M 2002) Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists. Cambridge University Press, New York.
48. Roulston, T.H. Cane, J.H 2002) The effect of pollen protein concentration on body size in the sweat bee Lasioglossum zephyrum (Hymenoptera: Apiformes). Evolutionary Ecology, 16, 49 65.
49. SAS Institute (2001) JMP 4.04, SAS Institute, Carey, North Carolina.
50. Scheirs, J., De Bruyn, L. Verhagen, R 2000) Optimization of adult performance determines host choice in a grass miner. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences, 267, 2065 2069.
51. Schmidt, J.O., Thoenes, S.C. Levin, M.D 1987) Survival of honey-bees, Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae), fed various pollen sources. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 80, 176 183.
52. Singaravelan, N., Inbar, M., Ne'eman, G., Distl, M., Wink, M. Izhaki, I 2006) The effects of nectar-nicotine on colony fitness of caged honeybees. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 32, 49 58.
53. Singaravelan, N., Nee'man, G., Inbar, M. Izhaki, I 2005) Feeding responses of free-flying honeybees to secondary compounds mimicking floral nectars. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 31, 2791 2804.
54. Smirle, M.J. Winston, M.L 1988) Detoxifying enzyme-activity in worker honey bees-an adaptation for foraging in contaminated ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, 66, 1938 1942.
55. Sokal, R. Rohlf, F 1995) Biometry: The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research, 3rd edn. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
56. Steffan-Dewenter, I. Schiele, S 2004) Nest-site fidelity, body weight and population size of the red mason bee, Osmia rufa (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), evaluated by Mark-Recapture experiments. Entomologia Generalis, 27, 123 132.
57. Stephenson, A.G 1981) Toxic nectar deters nectar thieves of Catalpa speciosa. American Midland Naturalist, 105, 381 383.
58. Stephenson, A.G 1982) Iridoid glycosides in the nectar of Catalpa speciosa are unpalatable to nectar thieves. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 8, 1025 1034.
59. Tepedino, V.J. Torchio, P.F 1982) Phenotypic variability in nesting success among Osmia lignaria propinqua females in a glasshouse environment (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Ecological Entomology, 7, 453 462.
60. Thompson, J.N 1988) Evolutionary ecology of the relationship between oviposition preference and performance of offspring in phytophagous insects. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 47, 3 14.
61. Torchio, P.F 1989) In-nest biologies and development of immature stages of 3 Osmia species (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 82, 599 615.
62. Vrieling, K., Smit, W. Vandermeijden, E 1991) Tritrophic Interactions between aphids (Aphis jacobaeae Schrank), ant species, Tyria jacobaeae L, and Senecio jacobaea L lead to maintenance of genetic-variation in pyrrolizidine alkaloid concentration. Oecologia, 86, 177 182.
63. Williams, N.M 2003) Use of novel pollen species by specialist and generalist solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Oecologia, 134, 228 237.
64. Wink, M 2000). Interference of alkaloids with neuroreceptors and ion channels. Bioactive Natural Products (ed. by Atta-Ur-Rahman Vol 11, pp. 3 129. Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
65. Yu, S.J., Robinson, F.A. Nation, J.L 1984) Detoxication capacity in the honey bee, Apis mellifera L. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 22, 360 368.