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PREY SELECTION AND CAPTURE BY THE CHINESE MANTID (TENODERA SINENSIS SAUSSURE).

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Title/Author:	PREY SELECTION AND CAPTURE BY THE CHINESE MANTID (TENODERA SINENSIS SAUSSURE)./
Author:	BARTLEY, JOHN ALAN.
Description:	1 online resource (108 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, Section: B, page: 1704.
Subject:	Ecology. -
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PREY SELECTION AND CAPTURE BY THE CHINESE MANTID (TENODERA SINENSIS SAUSSURE).
BARTLEY, JOHN ALAN.

PREY SELECTION AND CAPTURE BY THE CHINESE MANTID (TENODERA SINENSIS SAUSSURE). - 1 online resource (108 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, Section: B, page: 1704.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references

In the laboratory, several species of insects and artificial insect models were presented to immature Chinese mantids, (Tenodera sinensis Saussure) as potential prey. Capture success was dependent on the predator/prey size ratio and, to a lesser extent, the escape capabilities of each prey type. Results of the laboratory study were: (i) prey selection was accurately predicted using prey relative abundance and capture rate when prey offered were of similar size; (ii) a striped prey model was selected more frequently than a solid-color model of the same size; (iii) large prey were selected more frequently than expected by relative abundance and capture rates than small prey when offered simultaneously. Laboratory results were consistent with expectations derived from optimal foraging theory.

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Ecology.
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520 $a Predictions based on laboratory results were tested by placing three size classes of mantids in three replicate sets of enclosures in an old field. A 4('th) set of replicate enclosures without mantids served as a control. Each enclosure contained arthropods in abundances found naturally at time of placement. At the end of one week arthropods in all sets of enclosures were sampled to extinction.
520 $a Prey acquisition in the field did not conform to predictions based on prey selection results obtained in the laboratory. A foraging model based on prey relative abundance and the predator/prey size ratio (from which capture rates were derived) more accurately described prey selection by mantids in the field than optimal foraging theory. Prey consumption was influenced by the size of the mantid, the number of mantids in the enclosure, and the length of time the mantids were present. An expected prey biomass depletion for each set of experimental enclosures was computed using these variables. Expected depletion values were not significantly different from observed prey biomass depletion.
520 $a Taxonomic groups of prey did not influence prey selection except when the majority of the individuals in a taxon were within the same size category. The greatest decrease in arthropod species number and diversity (H') occurred in the enclosures with the smallest mantids. The smallest decrease occurred in the enclosures with the largest mantids.
520 $a Although capable of choosing between different types of prey in the laboratory, T. sinensis in the field was primarily a frequency dependent generalist. Frequency dependent depletion of prey in the field was modified by capture rates, which are dependent on mantid/prey size ratios.
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