Red flour beetles have been known to readily infest wheat flour but their likelihood to choose other types of flours is unknown. Red flour beetles will lay eggs in many types of flours but their choice to infest low- and no-gluten flours remains to be tested. Here we test a panel of 14 different commercially available flours in three different choice assays. We find that the beetles lay similar amounts of eggs in buckwheat, teff, millet, rice, and rye flours but that they show significant declines in preference for sorghum, potato, quinoa, cassava, oat, amaranth, garbanzo, spelt, and corn flours. By using three different assays - a wind tunnel, a large arena, and a small arena - we can further parse out differences in whether volatiles or texture of the flour may play a bigger role in choosing these flours to lay their eggs. The number of eggs laid in each of these 14 flours, plus a wheat control, is reported for both the large and small arenas and preference or movement toward the flour source is reported for a wind tunnel assay.
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Number of eggs laid in each flour patch in the larger arena tested (45.7 x...
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Number of eggs laid in each patch of flour in smaller arena tested (90-mm...
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Individual beetles were tested for preference to flour volatiles in a wind...
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Modified | 2023-01-30 |
Release Date | 2022-12-16 |
Identifier | 02a4175c-8694-414e-b0dd-d7c3ee307212 |
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area | POLYGON ((-97.20703125 38.514862794482, -97.20703125 40.347590756727, -93.955078125 40.347590756727, -93.955078125 38.514862794482)) |
Publisher | Ag Data Commons |
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location | Kansas |
Temporal Coverage | June 6, 2022 to December 9, 2022 |
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Contact Name | Gerken, Alison |
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Public Access Level | Public |
Program Code | 005:040 - Department of Agriculture - National Research |
Bureau Code | 005:18 - Agricultural Research Service |