Individual life history data from a resource degradation and temperature variation life history experiment in the Plodia-Venturia host-parasitoid interaction
Mugabo, M., Gilljam, D., Petteway, L., Yuan, C., Fowler, M.S., Sait, S.M. (2019). Individual life history data from a resource degradation and temperature variation life history experiment in the Plodia-Venturia host-parasitoid interaction. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/52b6b432-8f69-4b08-8a47-04e40f656f55
This dataset contains information on life history traits of the host Plodia interpunctella (Pyralidae; Hübner) and the parasitoid wasp Venturia canescens (Ichneumonidae; Gravenhorst). The data was collected from a single generation life history experiment investigating the combined effects of daily stochastic temperature fluctuations and resource degradation on individual life history in the Plodia-Venturia host-parasitoid trophic interaction. The Plodia interpunctella data include egg viability, egg status, hatching date, adult emergence date, date of death, sex, egg length in mm, and adult leg (mid-femur) length in mm. The Venturia canescens data include adult emergence date, adult emergence outcome (i.e., the species that emerged from parasitized host larvae), date of death and adult leg (hind-tibia) length in mm. The temperature time series data include the date and daily temperature in the fluctuating temperatures treatment.
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Mugabo, M., Gilljam, D., Petteway, L., Yuan, C., Fowler, M.S., & Sait, S.M. (2019). Environmental degradation amplifies species’ responses to temperature variation in a trophic interaction. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88(11), 1657–1669.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences