title: Demographic analysis of delayed mating in mating disruption: a case study with Cryptophelbia illepida (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae).
abstract: Laboratory-derived life tables were used to determine the effect of delaying mating of adult female koa seedworm, Cryptophlebia illepida (Butler) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), 4 and 6 d on population growth rates. Leslie matrices were developed from the life tables and used to project the effects for approximately four generations. Delay of mating caused a decrease in population growth rate and also resulted in asynchronous population cycling between control (1-d delay) and the delayed treatments. By the fourth generation, the control population began to increase 10 and 14 d before the 4- and 6-d delay treatments, respectively. Increasing the mortality of females during the first 7 d of adult life resulted in a greater reduction of the populations where mating was delayed than in the control populations. This result suggests that even at relatively low levels of natural enemy mortality, there is a synergistic effect when mating is delayed. The implications of these effects on mating disruption management programs are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu 96822, USA.
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aihara-Sasaki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D009036:Moths / Q000502:physiology*; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors