Cattle and Amblyomma variegatum Odors Used in Host Habitat and Host Finding by the Tick Parasitoid, Ixodiphagus hookeri |
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Authors: | Fanuel A Demas Ahmed Hassanali Esther N Mwangi Edna C Kunjeku Audrey R Mabveni |
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Affiliation: | (1) The International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), P.O. Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya;(2) Present address: Department of Agriculture, Polytechnic of Namibia, P/Bag 13388, Windhoek, Namibia;(3) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP 167, Harare, Zimbabwe |
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Abstract: | The response of mated naive Ixodiphagus hookeri females to cattle and Amblyomma variegatum nymphal odors was tested in a Y-tube olfactometer. I. hookeri females were attracted to cattle urine, dung, and odors from tick-free feeding sites of A. variegatum nymphs on cattle, e.g., dewlaps, front heels, and hind heels. Tick-free scrotal odors did not attract the parasitoids. Furthermore, odors from off-host unfed and fed A. variegatum nymphs did not attract the parasitoids, despite an increase in the number of the nymphs to amplify any odor signal. A blend of odors from feeding on-host nymphs and cattle scrota attracted the parasitoids. In T-tube bioassays, I. hookeri females were attracted to hexane washes and fecal extracts of A. variegatum nymphs. |
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Keywords: | Ixodiphagus hookeri Amblyomma variegatum Y-tube olfactometer T-tube olfactometer host finding host habitat finding tick parasitoid on-host ticks off-host ticks cattle odors |
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