Size-specific provisioning by Cicada killers, Sphecius speciosus, (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in North Florida

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 412-421

  Hastings, Jon M ^a   Holliday, Charles W ^b   Long, Andrew ^a   Jones, Katie ^a   Rodriguez, Grayson ^a  

^a NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

mass provisioning; prey size; selective hunting; size variation; solitary wasp

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BURROW; CAPTURE METHOD; HUNTING; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SHRUB; WASP;

UNITED STATES;

CICADA; CICADIDAE; CRABRONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MEGASCOLIA FLAVIFRONS; SPHECIUS SPECIOSUS;

EID: 77957361324     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/024.093.0315     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Coelho, J. R. 1997. Sexual size dimorphism and flight behavior in cicada killers, Sphecius speciosus. Oikos 79: 371-375.
2. DOW, R. 1942a. The relation between prey and sex in the cicada killer. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 44 (6 -June): 127-128.
3. DOW, R. 1942b. The relation of the prey of Sphecius speciosus to the size and sex of the adult wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. America 35: 310-317.
4. EVANS, H. E., AND O'NEILL, K. M. 2007. The Sand Wasps: Natural History and Behavior. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 340 pp.
5. GENARO, J. A., AND JUARRERO DE VARONA, C. 1998. Comportamiento de Sphecius hogardii durante la nidificación (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Caribbean J. Sci. 34: 323-324.
6. GRANT, P. R. 2006. Opportunistic predation and offspring sex ratios of cicada-killer wasps (Sphecius speciosus Drury). Ecol. Entomol. 31: 539-547.
7. GWYNNE, D. T., AND DODSON, G. N. 1983. Nonrandom provisioning by the digger wasp, Palmodes laeviventris (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. America 76: 434-436.
8. HASTINGS, J. M., HOLLIDAY, C. W., AND COELHO, J. R. 2008. Body size relationship between Sphecius speciosus (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) and their prey: prey size determines wasp size. Florida Entomol. 91(4): 657-663.
9. HOLLIDAY, C. W., AND COELHO, J. R. 2006. Improved key to New World species of Sphecius (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. America 99: 793-798.
10. HOLLIDAY, C. W., HASTINGS, J. M., AND COELHO, J. R. 2009. Cicada prey of New World cicada killers, Sphecius spp. (Dahlbom 1843) (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Entomol. News 120(1): 1-17.
11. LIN, N. 1979a. The weight of cicada killer wasps, Sphecius speciosus, and the weight of their prey. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 68: 159-163.
12. LIN, N. 1979b. Differential prey selection for the sex of offspring in the cicada killer Sphecius speciosus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 81(2): 269-275.
13. OHL, M., AND THIELE, K. 2007. Estimating body size in apoid wasps: the significance of inear variables in a morphologically diverse taxon (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Museum für Naturkudeder Humbolt Universität zu Berlin 83(2): 110-124.
14. POLIDORI, C., BOESI, R., ISOLA, F., AND ANDRETTI, F. 2005. Provisioning patterns and choice of prey in the digger wasp Cerceris arenaria (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae): the role of prey size. European J. Entomol. 102: 801-804.
15. PUNZO, F. 1994. The biology of the spider wasp, Pepsis thisbe (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Trans Pecos, Texas. I. Adult morphometrics, larval development and the ontogeny of larval feeding patterns. Psyche 101: 229-242.
16. R DEVELOPMENT CORE TEAM (2008). R: A Language and Environment For Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org. Last accessed. May 22, 2009.
17. SEIDELMANN, K. 2006. Open-cell parasitism shapes maternal investment patterns in the red mason bee Osmia rufa. Behav. Ecol. 17(5): 839-848.
18. STROHM, E. 2000. Factors affecting body size and fat content in a digger wasp. Oecol. 123(2): 184-191.
19. WALKER, T. J., AND MOORE, T. E. Singing Insects of North America. http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walk-er/buzz/c700fl2.htm. Last accessed 17 May, 2009.