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Effect of Host Plants on the Viability of Black-veined White Aporia crataegi L. at Low Natural Population Density

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Patterns of interaction of an oligophagous insect, black-veined white Aporia crataegi L., with host plants in years with a low density of its natural population are analyzed. In years with low A. crataegi population abundance in the south of Sverdlovsk region (Sysertsky district), the species composition of caterpillar host plants gradually decreases from several woody rosaceous species of the genera Padus, Sorbus, Malus, and Crataegus to one species (Padus avium Mill.). It is shown that the mortality rate is higher for fifth-instar caterpillars developing on mountain ash than for those developing on bird cherry. Adult A. crataegi developing on bird cherry are not only larger but also grow faster than those developing on mountain ash, which may be an additional factor responsible for the observed chronographic variation during the emergence of A. crataegi generation in nature.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to Dr. A.V. Il’inykh (Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk) for identifying nuclear polyhedrosis virus in A. crataegi and to A.V. Ivanov, P.V. Rudoiskatel, and K.I. Fadeev (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg) for their assistance in experimental research at the biological station.

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The long-term collection of field material, its laboratory processing, analysis, and interpretation of the results were performed under the state assignment of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (no. AAAAA19-119031890087-7) and the Integrated Basic Research Program of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (project no. 18-4-4-28).

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Zakharova, E.Y., Shkurikhin, A.O., Solonkin, I.A. et al. Effect of Host Plants on the Viability of Black-veined White Aporia crataegi L. at Low Natural Population Density. Russ J Ecol 51, 550–556 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413620060107

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