Feeding on different attractive flowering plants affects the energy reserves of Culex pipiens pallens adults

Mosquito adults usually need to ingest sugar from nectar host plants to sustain their metabolic needs. Mosquitoes could be differentially attracted by various flowering plant species, and the volatiles were thought to be important factors attributed to the differential attractiveness. However, wheth...

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Published in:Parasitology research (1987) 2018, Vol.117 (1), p.67-73
Main Authors: Yu, Bao-Ting, Hu, Yin, Ding, Yan-Mei, Tian, Jia-Xin, Mo, Jian-Chu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Allelochemicals
Animals
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Butterflies & moths
Culex - metabolism
Culex - physiology
Culex pipiens
Culicidae
Energy Metabolism
Feeding
Feeding Behavior
Flowering
Flowers
Food and nutrition
Food Preferences
Glycogen
Health aspects
Host plants
Immunology
Insect-plant relationships
Medical Microbiology
Metabolism
Microbiology
Mosquitoes
Nectar
Observations
Odorants
Original Paper
Seeds
Sugar
Volatiles
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Summary:Mosquito adults usually need to ingest sugar from nectar host plants to sustain their metabolic needs. Mosquitoes could be differentially attracted by various flowering plant species, and the volatiles were thought to be important factors attributed to the differential attractiveness. However, whether mosquitoes’ preference for host plants correlates with their nutritional rewards from sugar sources remains unclear. In the present study, the preference of newly emerged Culex pipiens pallens to three kinds of flowering plants ( Ligustrum quihoui , Abelia chinensis , and Nerium indicum ) was determined in the olfactometer. Besides, when the newly emerged mosquitoes were provided with these flowering plants as sugar sources, the content of their metabolic reserves (glycogen, lipid, and protein) was determined. The results revealed that Cx. pipiens pallens could be differentially attracted by the odors emitted by the inflorescences of the tested flowering plants, and the nutritional rewards of mosquitoes were significantly affected by feeding on different inflorescences. The present study demonstrated that feeding on nectar host plants with differential attraction could affect the energy reserves of Cx. pipiens pallens .
ISSN:0932-0113
1432-1955
DOI:10.1007/s00436-017-5664-y