Claim · model-written summary
Agonum dorsale from untreated plots had significantly more gut sections containing solid arthropod food remains
- Taxon
- spring wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- untreated plotse5
- Interactor
- A. dorsale
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Anchomenus dorsalise5biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- gut sectionse5
- Direction
- moree5
- Comparator
- herbicide-treatede1
Verbatim
e1“The arthropod faunas of herbicide-treated and untreated headland plots of a spring wheat crop were compared in a replicated within-field experiment in Hampshire, England”
e5“Dissection revealed that significantly more gut sections of gravid and nongravid female and male P. melanarius and gravid female and male A. dorsale from untreated plots contained solid arthropod food remains”
Title
The Effects of Beneficial Arthropods of the Exclusion of Herbicides from Cereal Crop Edges
P. A. Chiverton; N. W. Sotherton Journal of Applied Ecology 1991. doi:10.2307/2404223
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots of spring wheat had more weed species than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots of spring wheat had higher weed densities than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots of spring wheat had greater weed biomass than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots of spring wheat had a higher percentage weed cover than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots supported significantly higher densities of nontarget arthropods than herbicide-treated plots
- Intervention effect Unsprayed headland plots contained higher densities of predatory arthropod groups
- Intervention effect Pterostichus melanarius from untreated plots had significantly more gut sections containing solid arthropod food remains
- Intervention effect Carabid beetles took significantly more meals in untreated plots
- Intervention effect Carabid beetles preyed upon a wider variety of arthropod food in untreated plots
- Intervention effect Carabid beetles collected from untreated plots had higher numbers of eggs per female
- Intervention effect Total pitfall trap catch of Pterostichus melanarius did not differ significantly between treated and untreated plots
- Intervention effect Total pitfall trap catch of Agonum dorsale did not differ significantly between treated and untreated plots
- Intervention effect Agonum dorsale females were caught in significantly greater proportion in treated plots than in untreated plots
- Intervention effect Fewer cereal aphids were consumed by beetles in unsprayed plots than in herbicide-treated plots
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Hordeum vulgare