When mating disruption does not disrupt mating: fitness consequences of delayed mating in moths
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Abstract
Abstract The goals of pheromone‐mediated mating disruption are to interfere with mate finding, suppress insect population growth, and prevent crop damage. In addition to prevention of mating, pheromone treatment can also result in a delay of mating so that the fitness and subsequent population dynamics of the target insect pest are impacted. Females have a limited time to mate, mature eggs, and find suitable oviposition hosts, and a delay in mating can have large consequences on female fitness. As a result, delayed mating could be considered an indirect method by which mating disruption works to control pest populations. We perform a meta‐analysis on 24 experimental studies to assess the consequences of delayed mating on female moth fecundity, egg fertility, adult longevity, and pre‐oviposition period. Our goal is to determine whether the effect of delayed mating on female moth fitness is influenced by the following explanatory variables: moth family, voltinism, larval diet breadth, adult dispersal capacity, female mating strategy, and egg development strategy. Across species, the effect of delayed mating on female moths significantly decreases fecundity, fertility, and pre‐oviposition period and increases female longevity. The effect of delayed mating on female fitness is only marginally affected by the explanatory variables tested. We discuss the observed patterns and argue that delayed mating can be an important method by which population regulation is achieved through pheromone‐mediated mating disruption. Finally, we highlight areas where future research could add to the growing body of knowledge on mating disruption‐imposed delayed mating of female moths.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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