九种蝗虫核型似近系数的聚类分析研究

应用核型似近系数聚类分析方法,研究了小稻蝗Oxya hyla intricata、山稻蝗O.Agav-isa、上海稻蝗O.Shanghaiensis无齿稻蝗O.Adentata、中华稻蝗O.Chisensis、日本稻蝗O.Japonica、短额负蝗Atractomorpha sinensis、奇异负蝗A.Pergrina和日本蚱Tetrix japonica等9种蝗虫的亲缘关系。结果显示,9种蝗虫分为3类：稻蝗,负蝗和蚱。6种稻蝗之间的核型似近系数(λ)在0.961～0.5695之间,2种负蝗的λ＝0.5867,日本蚱与这8种蝗虫的λ在0.5318～.0322。聚类图直观地反映出它们的亲缘关系与形态分类学的分类结果相一致。从9种蝗虫 的核型演化上看,日本蚱是较原始的类型,负蝗分化也较早,而稻蝗则是较进化的类型。     

黑河上游天然草地亚洲小车蝗蝗蝻与成虫多度分布与地形关系的GAM分析

环境异质性是生物空间格局形成与维持的重要条件, 蝗虫的空间分布是物种长期适应自然环境的结果, 反映了蝗虫与生存环境的协同进化机制。在2009年7-8月野外调查的基础上, 借助GIS和S-PLUS 8.0软件, 利用广义相加模型（GAM）研究了祁连山北坡黑河上游亚洲小车蝗Oedaleus asiaticus蝗蝻与成虫多度分布与海拔、 坡向、 坡度和剖面曲率等6类地形因子之间的关系。结果表明： 亚洲小车蝗蝗蝻与成虫的多度分布与地形因子关系的GAM模型具有不同的模型结构、 模拟效果以及结果的稳定性, 能够较好地体现二者所受地形因子影响的差异。各地形因子对亚洲小车蝗蝗蝻与成虫多度的影响不尽相同, 海拔对二者的多度分布起主导控制作用, 蝗蝻与成虫的多度均随海拔的升高大体呈现倒“V”型变化趋势, 但蝗蝻在海拔梯度上的分布上限明显大于成虫。成虫主要集中分布在剖面曲率<0的区域, 蝗蝻主要集中分布在南坡与西南坡。亚洲小车蝗蝗蝻与成虫对环境选择的异质性属性, 使蝗蝻和成虫在相同地形要素的分布格局存在明显差异。     

典型草原三种蝗虫成虫期的食物消耗量及其利用的初步研究

为了进一步明确蝗虫类群在草原生态系统内的功能作用,在内蒙古锡林河流域典型草原益和乌拉山地区,依蝗虫发生季节的次序,先后研究了3种优势蝗虫(毛足棒角蝗、宽须蚁蝗、亚州小车蝗)成虫群体在自然变温条件下取食羊草的食物消耗量和利用能力问题。 本文首先提出了群体饲育时,蝗虫个体平均寿命的计算式: (?)=sum from n=i-1 to (?) i·N_i/N_t 式中,i=个体寿命的天数;N_i=寿命为i的个体数,N_t=蝗虫实验种群的个体总数。 据上式计算得出3种蝗虫个体平均寿命,毛足棒角蝗:雄性为38.2±2.8天、雌性为31.4±2.2天;宽须蚁蝗:雄性为40.9±2.3天、雌性为30.2±1.6天、亚洲小车蝗:雄性为52.6±0.7天、雌性为40.6±2.3天。 3种蝗虫在其成虫历期内,平均个体累积食量玩 (干重,克)为:毛足棒角蝗的雄性为0.607±0.059、雌性为0.643±0.084;宽须蚁蝗的雄性为0.303±0.022、雌性为0.340±0.037;亚洲小车蝗的雄性为1.414±0.180、雌性为2.933±0.186。在不同蝗种间,其平均个体累积食量的差异显著(P<0.01)。 3种蝗虫的雌性个体的近似消化力（A.D.）均显著高于同种的雌性个体（p<0.01）;季节发生早的蝗种之近似消化力相对高于较晚期发生的种类（毛足棒角蝗>宽须蚁蚁蝗>亚洲小车蝗）。对摄入食物的转换效率（E.C.I.,E.C.D.）,则同种内的雌性个体均显著高于雄性（p<0.01）;不同蝗种间,以个体最小、在中期发生的宽须蚁蝗对摄入食物的转换效率为最高。     

蝗虫微孢子虫病在草原蝗虫优势种种群及空间的分布

在采用蝗虫微孢子虫Nosema locustae防治过的草场中进行抽样调查,研究了草原蝗虫优势种类、混合种群平均密度与蝗虫微孢子虫疾病分布之关系,以及该疾病的空间分布。在防治后的当年,蝗虫微孢子虫疾病的感染率随着混合种群平均密度及靶标蝗虫亚洲小车蝗Oedaleus asiaticus的感病率的下降而降低。但是,次靶标蝗虫如宽须蚁蝗Myrmeleotettixpalpalis(一种中后期发生的种类)其感病率呈上升趋势,表明该疾病可在不同发生期种类蝗虫之间进行有效地传播。病蝗虫在防治后第7d其空间分布呈随机分布(Poisson),第28d 则是聚集分布,第40d时也呈聚集分布。于1993年、1994年对1988年(样区Ⅱ)、1989 年(样区Ⅲ)采用微孢子虫防治过的草场进行抽样调查。结果表明,在二个样区中,二年混合种群平均虫口密度与混合种群的平均感病率呈正相关(相关系数分别为r=0.289, r=0.479)。蝗虫微孢子虫病在主要优势种,如亚洲小车蝗、宽须蚁蝗、白边痂蝗Bryode maluctuosumluctuosum、皱膝蝗Angaracris /I>spp.、毛足棒角蝗Dasyhippus barbipes均有分布。二个样区中的混合蝗虫种群的平均感病率在1994年显著低于1993年。混合蝗虫种群的种类组成也有所变化,与1993年相比,1994年宽须蚁蝗及白边痂蝗的比例上升较大,而亚洲小车蝗的比例下降。经过5—7年的扩散,蝗虫微孢子虫病至少可扩散距防治区1 000m,其扩散方向可能与风及地势等有关。     

蝗虫微孢子虫病对东亚飞蝗聚集行为的影响

采用行为生测法和触角电位法研究了感染蝗虫微孢子虫病的东亚飞蝗对其聚集信息素粗提物的行为反应。在第3龄时部分蝗虫每头接种10^6个蝗虫微孢子虫,与健虫同一条件下饲养。用二氯甲烷从健康蝗虫的粪便、体表或卵囊中抽提聚集信息素,粗提物经纯化和浓缩后保存于冰柜中待用。结果表明,感病飞蝗对其信息素的感受能力下降,聚集行为反应减弱。行为生物测定发现,微孢子虫病对第4龄雌性蝗虫和第5龄蝗虫的聚集行为有明显的抑制作用,而对第4龄雄蝗的影响较小;总的看来,信息素粗提物对感病雄蝗和高龄蝗虫的作用分别高于对感病雌蝗和低龄蝗虫的作用。触角电位(EAG)测定表明,感染了微孢子虫病的东亚飞蝗蝗蝻和成虫,对其信息素粗提物的敏感性降低,且对不同来源的聚集信息素的电生理反应不同,其中对从雄性成熟蝗虫、第4龄蝗蝻及第5龄病虫的粪便中抽提制备的信息素粗提物、第4龄蝗蝻粪便挥发物、第4龄蝗蝻活虫体表挥发物的电生理反应显著下降;但对第5龄雌蝗和第5龄散居型蝗虫的粪便抽提物的电生理活性,病健虫无明显差异。此研究结果证明,施用微孢子虫治蝗时,微孢子虫对蝗虫的聚集行为有明显的影响,为微孢子虫的控害机理提供了新的证据。     

四平地区六种优势蝗虫精巢发育的动态变化

在吉林省四平地区对6种优势蝗虫进行野外罩养,从成虫出现到死亡期间,对蝗虫精巢发育动态变化进行解剖学测量、统计分析和组织学观察。结果表明,蝗虫成虫刚出现时精巢发育水平较高,精巢长度显著增长但宽度增长差异不显著,随着虫体发育精巢体积达到峰值后出现下降趋势。不同种蝗虫精巢发育具有明显的种间差异,成虫出现时其精巢发育水平依次为长翅素木蝗>黄胫小车蝗>绿牧草蝗>素色异爪蝗>条纹异爪蝗>异翅负蝗,并且各蝗虫类群精巢发育的体积动态变化各不相同,体现出各蝗虫类群精巢生理功能的强弱。组织学观察显示,蝗虫发育不同时期精巢内以不同类型的精母细胞为主,精巢体积增长是精母细胞增长和成熟精子积累的结果,精巢体积下降为交配活动导致的大量精子外排以及其生理机能减退所至。     

激光照射对蝗虫诱变杀灭效应的初步研究

为初步研究激光对蝗虫的诱变杀灭效应,将中华剑角蝗成虫、东亚飞蝗成虫和东亚飞蝗幼虫按种群分为照射试验组和对照组,选择采用波长808nm、功率2W的半导体连续单管激光器进行照射试验。分别取距离激光二极管发光面1cm处和2cm处以时间15s、10s、5s和3s进行蝗虫头部眼睛部位和翅膀部位辐照,探索蝗虫不同身体部位对激光的敏感性,比较激光对不同种类和龄期蝗虫的杀灭效应,并对蝗虫的活性进行观察。结果显示:不同强度及辐照时间的激光照射后,蝗虫的活性均有所降低,且照射时间越长、功率密度越大,蝗虫活性下降越显著;随着照射后时间的延长,群体蝗虫的活性降到一个较低的水平;激光对东亚飞蝗的辐照杀灭效应优于中华剑角蝗;蝗蝻较成虫容易被激光灭杀;头部眼睛部位较翅膀部位对激光敏感。     

吉林四平地区六个蝗虫优势种卵巢发育的季节动态

通过对吉林省四平地区6个蝗虫优势种绿牧草蝗Omocestuaviridulus(L.),黄胫小车蝗OedaleusinfernalisSauss,素色异爪蝗Euchorthippusunicolor(Ikonn.),条纹异爪蝗E.vittatusZheng,异翅负蝗AtractomorphaheteropteraB.Bienko和长翅素木蝗Shirakacrisshirakii(I.Bol.)的野外养殖,从成虫出现到死亡对6个蝗虫优势种卵巢季节动态变化进行了观察和测量研究。结果表明,(1)不同发育历期成虫体长变化差异不显著,而卵巢形态和体积变化差异显著;(2)卵巢发育具有明显的种间差异;(3)卵巢发育速度呈现先慢后快的增长模式;(4)6个蝗虫优势种卵巢发育符合5个发育级别的划分标准。     

苏云金杆菌对中华稻蝗的毒力和致染色体畸变研究

本研究采用注射法测定了苏云金杆菌 (Bacillusthuringiensis,B .t)对中华稻蝗 5龄蝻和初羽化成虫的毒力。结果显示 ,B .t对中华稻蝗蝻和成虫均有一定的杀伤力。在 4 8h ,B .t对蝻和成虫的毒力回归线分别为 y =1 15 2 61x (相关系数r =0 993 8)和 y =2 0 6 2 11x (r =0 992 1) ,LD50 分别为 0 18IU/头和 0 2 0IU/头 ,蝗蝻较成虫对药剂稍敏感 ;成虫在 2 4h的LD50 ( 0 2 7IU/头 )比 4 8h的LD50 ( 0 2 0IU/头 )大 ,在较短的作用时间达到同样的杀伤效果需要较高的作用效价。此外 ,还观察分析了B .t悬浮液对 5龄蝗蝻精巢细胞染色体的致畸效应。结果发现 ,B .t可诱发蝗蝻一定比例的染色体畸变 ,其畸变类型主要是染色单体断裂和染色体断裂。统计分析认为 ,它是一种较强的致蝗虫染色体畸变剂。     

蝗虫微孢子虫对蝗虫脂肪含量的影响

用东亚飞蝗Locusta migratoria manilensis作为活体寄主,将4龄蝗蝻接种蝗虫微孢子虫Nosema locustae后,对虫体总脂含量和血淋巴中的甘油脂含量、脂肪酶活力进行了测定,结果表明：蝗虫微孢子虫的寄生可导致东亚飞蝗虫体总脂含量和血淋巴甘油酯含量大幅度下降及血淋巴脂肪酶活力大幅度上升。根据病虫生理指标提出了一种新的病级鉴定方法。     

蝗虫成灾规律、影响因素及防控技术研究进展

蝗虫是最重要的全球农牧业害虫之一,其灾害不仅强烈影响生态系统功能和稳定性,还带来严重的经济损失。因蝗虫食性杂、适应性强、聚集为害等特点使其可持续治理成为一项复杂而长期的艰巨工作。本文从蝗虫灾变发生规律、影响因素(自身因素、非生物和生物因素)以及当前有效防控方法与技术进行综述,并从蝗虫种群动态变化规律以及其有效防控的理论与技术提出今后的研究方向,为将来蝗虫发生的内在机制研究以及对其进行绿色防控技术探索提供基础。     

中国北方草地蝗虫学研究概况

<正> 就目前所知,我国严重为害草地的害虫约计40余种(田畴等,1988),其中主要为蝗虫类。其为害遍布我国北方草地。仅在内蒙古,每年发生面积约500～1000万亩,在为害严重的局部地区其虫口密度达200头/m~2。蝗虫的大发     

内蒙古锡林河流域三种草原蝗虫对植物高度选择的观察

在实验条件下,观察了发生期及个体大小不一致的3种草原蝗虫对植物高度选择情况．结果表明：蝗虫对植物高度的选择与其本身发生时期及个体大小相关,是物种长期进化的结果,同时,还探讨了蝗虫对植物高度的选择与温度、温度及光照强度之间的关系．     

内蒙古锡林河流域不同生境中蝗虫种类组成的分析

本文对内蒙古锡林河流域不同生境中蝗虫种类发生的情况进行了分析。经过系统取样和大面积扫网调查,共采集到蝗虫21种,这些种类在各生境中出现的情况,与生境的复杂程度存在很大的关系。在复杂的生境中,蝗虫种类最丰富。根据锡林河流域不同生境中蝗虫种类发生的情况,经过比较分析,我们认为在该区域存在的沙带生境是典型草原的“蝗虫库”。“蝗虫库”的存在,对牧业生产构成一定的潜在威胁。经存在度分析表明,一些常见的种类,生态分布幅度宽,同时,它们又是当地的优势种害虫,为害大,是重点防治对象。     

环青海湖地区草地生境的蝗虫潜在发生可能性评价

环青海湖地区是青海省草地蝗虫最集中的区域,主要有10种,它们对草地造成了很大危害,草地蝗虫的发生与由植被、地形、土壤等组成的生境类型存在密切的关系。论述了草地蝗虫生境类型划分的原因,并提出了生境分类方案,在此基础上,提出了各类生境针对草地蝗虫潜在发生可能性的评价原理,方法和评价指标体系,并据其对野外实地调查样点进行了评价,结果表明,草地蝗虫潜在发生可能性指数与草地蝗虫密度间的相关系数高达0．90,研究区受草地蝗虫严重危害或较严重危害的生境类型是芨芨草草原,克氏针茅草原及紫花针草原,高寒草甸属一般危害,高寒灌丛草甸则不发生危害。     

草原蝗虫营养生态位的研究*

本文采用嗉囊内含物显微分析技术系统地研究了内蒙古典型草原蝗虫的选食特性和食物利用诺。根据11种蝗虫嗉囊内含物分析的结果,定量地研究了蝗虫的营养生态位以及生态位的重叠和宽度。11-种蝗虫依据生态位分化的特点,被划分为5个不同的营养需求类群：禾草取食者、禾草-杂草取食者、杂草-禾草取食者、杂草取食者和杂食者。作者通过对蝗虫食性及生物量的研究,提出了蝗虫潜在严重值和实际严重值的概念和计算方法,也就蝗虫在草原生态系统中的相互作用关系及共存关系进行了讨论。     

Survival advantage of sluggish individuals in aggregations of aposematic prey, during encounters with ambush predators

Movement is an important element of prey defense ensembles. The adaptive advantages of either remaining motionless or rapid escape are clear. In contrast, putative benefits are unclear for sluggish movement of aposematic prey that are neither fleeing nor avoiding detection of predators. Nonetheless, sluggish movement is common in aposematic insects. Our central hypothesis is that sluggish movement evolved in part by motion-oriented predators culling the fastest-moving insects from an aggregation. This would be particularly likely in chemically defended prey, which would deter continued predation. We test predictions of our hypothesis with feeding experiments using the sluggish, gregarious Eastern lubber grasshopper and a motion-oriented predator, the Northern leopard frog. Sluggish-moving (i.e., control) grasshoppers were significantly less likely to be eaten than fast-moving (i.e., motion-induced) grasshoppers (p = 0.0098). Next, non-moving grasshoppers were used as extreme sluggish-moving prey. Non-moving prey were significantly less likely to be eaten than sluggish-moving grasshoppers (p = 0.05). In addition, and most importantly, sluggish-moving grasshoppers in an aggregation were significantly less likely to be attacked than fast-moving grasshoppers in the aggregation (p = 0.0156). Finally, the survivorship of sluggish-moving grasshoppers in pairings vs. aggregations was not significantly different (p = 0.33). Our results demonstrate that the fastest-moving individual in an aggregation of aposematic insects is more likely than sluggish cohorts to be attacked by motion-oriented predators. This survival disadvantage for fast-moving, gregarious prey could create a selection pressure for the evolution of sluggish movement as a defense mechanism in aposematic, gregarious prey.     

Persistence of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Paranosema</Emphasis> (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Nosema</Emphasis>) <Emphasis Type="Italic">locustae</Emphasis> (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) among grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) populations in the Inner Mongolia Rangeland,China

Paranosema (Nosema) locustae Canning has persisted in grasshopper populations in the Inner Mongolia Rangeland since spore treatment was applied in 1993. In the treatment year, a 58.32–71.43% reduction of grasshoppers was recorded and 59.26–80.36% of surviving grasshoppers of various species were infected. In the years following application, prevalence of P. locustae varied from 13.65% to 60.71%, demonstrating that P. locustae remains in grasshopper populations for many years. Infection prevalence was more than 60.00% for Dasyhippus barbipes (F.-W.), Bryodema luctuosum luctuosoma (Stoll) and Angaracris barabensis (Pall.) in 1993 but was very variable, ranging from 20.00% to 60.71% over the subsequent nine years. Disease prevalence was 43.72–60.71% in 1993 and 1994 for Oedaleus asiaticus B.-Bienko and Myrmeleotettix palpalis (Zub.) but gradually declined to approximately 20%, where it remained. Persistence of P. locustae in grasshopper populations may be important in keeping densities below economic thresholds for a number of years after application. Handling Editor: Helen Roy.     

Comparison of an Organophosphate Insecticide with a Mycoinsecticide for the Control of Oedaleus senegalensis (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and Other Sahelian Grasshoppers at an Operational Scale

Operational scale field trials were conducted in 1996 and 1997, in the east of the Niger Republic, on 50 and 800 hectare plots, to compare the efficacy of an oil based formulation of the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae (flavoviride) var. acridum (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) with fenitrothion for the control of Sahelian grasshoppers. The Senegalese Grasshopper Oedaleus senegalensis Krauss was the most abundant species in the trials. M. anisopliae was applied at 5 x 1012 spores ha-1 at volume application rates of 2 and 0.5 l ha-1 in successive years. Fenitrothion was applied at 220 g/ha-1 at 1.25 and 0.22 l ha-1 volume application rates. Ultra low volume equipment mounted on a vehicle (1996) or a fixed wing aircraft (1997) was used for application. The M. anisopliae treatment reduced the grasshopper population significantly after 7 days and by 93% within 16 days. Fenitrothion caused a population reduction of more than 90% shortly after application, but due to immigration, the grasshopper population recovered to the initial level within 16 days. Grasshoppers treated with the fungus and given the opportunity to thermoregulate in the sun died more slowly than grasshoppers incubated in the shade. The survival of spores in the spray residue of the M. anisopliae plots assessed by exposing grasshoppers to the sprayed vegetation at intervals and monitoring disease levels during subsequent laboratory incubation, showed the spray residue to remain highly infective, for three weeks after spraying. At the end of the 1997 season, egg pod density and viability in the plot treated with the fungus was reduced compared with both untreated and the fenitrothion plots. Compared with the existing practice of large-scale treatment of grasshopper infestations with fenitrothion, use of M. anisopliae would not only be safer to mammals and less damaging to non-target organisms, but also be more effective in the long-term control of grasshoppers.     

Review of the Methods Frequently Used to Estimate the Abundance of Orthoptera in Grassland Ecosystems

Ecologists have quantified Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets) density in a wide variety of conservation studies. Objective determination of Orthoptera population size is possible using mark-release recapture techniques but these are time-consuming and of little use for all but the smallest scale studies. Therefore, a wide range of sampling techniques have been devised to quantify population density and the most commonly used methods include sweep netting and quadrat counts. It is the aim of this paper to critically review studies that have used these techniques and to provide useful suggestions for non-specialists on which method may be most applicable to their study site. This paper reviews a selection of the extensive literature reporting studies estimating the abundance of grasshoppers (Acrididae) in a wide range of grassland ecosystems. Where possible, studies on bush-crickets (Tettigoniidae) and crickets (Gryllidae) are included reflecting their overall contribution to assemblage diversity in grassland ecosystems and to highlight the need for further investigations of sampling efficiency on these two under-researched families.The most rapid and inexpensive sampling methods, such as quadrat and transect counts, involve ‘flushing’ grasshoppers from the sward. These techniques are fairly accurate in short, open swards (<50 cm sward height) where grasshopper densities are low (<2 adults per m²). At higher population densities (>2 adults per m²), methods which require the capture of grasshoppers such as box quadrats and sweep netting may be more appropriate. Sampling grasshopper populations in taller vegetation (>50 cm sward height) is more problematic as the efficiency of many techniques may be reduced by vegetation structure. Methods such as timed counts can be used at low densities (<2 adults per m²) and night trapping might be most applicable where high numbers of grasshoppers are present (>2 adults per m²).There is an urgent need for development of a standardised sampling technique that can produce comparable data from studies with a wide variety of observers in grasslands with differing vegetation structures and grasshopper densities.