Does stem color affect the selection of host plants by the small cabbage white butterfly Pieris rapae?

Jun Tsuji; Lindsay Rupp

doi:10.1893/0005-3155-86.2.66

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Jun Tsuji,¹ Lindsay Rupp¹

¹Biology Department, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI, 49221

Abstract

The effects of Brassica rapa stem color on the selection of host plants by Pieris rapae were investigated using choice tests between seedlings with reddish-purple, anthocyanin-containing stems and seedlings with light-green, anthocyaninless stems. The first landing response and the collective as well as the individual egg-laying behavior of P. rapae female butterflies to the reddish-purple-stemmed seedlings were comparable to the responses to the light-green-stemmed plants. These results demonstrate that stem anthocyanins do not play a significant role in host plant selection.

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Jun Tsuji and Lindsay Rupp "Does stem color affect the selection of host plants by the small cabbage white butterfly Pieris rapae?," BIOS 86(2), 66-73, (1 May 2014). https://doi.org/10.1893/0005-3155-86.2.66

Received: 21 April 2014; Accepted: 1 September 2014; Published: 1 May 2014

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