Eur. J. Entomol. 115: 658-667, 2018 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2018.065

Overwintering of ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on Scots pine in Central EuropeOriginal article

Milada HOLECOVÁ1, Peter ZACH2 *, Katarína HOLLÁ1, Miroslava ŠEBESTOVÁ1, Mária KLESNIAKOVÁ1, Anna ŠESTÁKOVÁ3, Alois HONĚK4, Oldřich NEDVĚD5,6, Michal PARÁK2, Zdenka MARTINKOVÁ4, Juraj HOLEC7,8, Sandra VIGLÁŠOVÁ2, Peter M.J. BROWN9, Helen E. ROY10, Ján KULFAN2
1 Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Zoology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; e-mails: milada.holecova@uniba.sk, holla24@uniba.sk, miroslava.kupkova@gmail.com, klesniakova1@uniba.sk
2 Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľ. Štúra 2, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovak Republic; e-mails: zach@ife.sk, kulfan@ife.sk
3 The Western Slovakia Museum, Trnava, Slovak Republic; e-mail: sestakova.anna@zupa-tt.sk
4 Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507, 161 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic; e-mails: honek@vurv.cz, martinkova@vurv.cz
5 University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; e-mail: nedved@prf.jcu.cz
6 Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
7 Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; e-mail: holec@shmu.sk
8 Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; e-mail: juraj.holec@uniba.sk
9 Applied Ecology Research Group, Department of Biology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; e-mail: peter.brown@anglia.ac.uk
10 NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom; e-mail: hele@ceh.ac.uk

We surveyed ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in 10 stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), all monoculture stands 5-100 years old, in western Slovakia, Central Europe, over two successive periods, October 2013 - March 2014 and October 2014 - March 2015. The winter in each period was exceptionally mild. Ladybirds were collected from the lower branches of pine trees using beating trays and were present in 61% of the 1040 samples (one sample containing ladybirds from 20 branches, 1 m long each). In total 3965 individuals of 20 species were recorded. Non-conifer dwelling species associated with broadleaved trees or herbaceous plants prevailed (45% of species), followed by conifer specialists (40%) and generalists (15%). Although 13 species were found at least in one winter month, December, January or February, only four of them, Exochomus quadripustulatus, Coccinella septempunctata, Harmonia axyridis and Hippodamia variegata, were recorded continually during both winters. The number of species, the abundance of all ladybirds and the abundance of dominant species (E. quadripustulatus, C. septempunctata and H. axyridis) decreased from late autumn towards winter and remained lowest during this most adverse time of the year for ladybirds. Overwintering species assemblages of ladybirds changed over time and varied with age of pine stand. Our results suggest that Scots pine in Central Europe supports species rich assemblages of ladybirds from late autumn to early spring and, being widely distributed, it could be suited to winter surveying of ladybirds at large spatial scales to reveal behavioural and ecological responses of species to changing weather or different climates.

Keywords: Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, ladybirds, Pinus sylvestris, diapause, overwintering, temporal changes, Central Europe

Received: February 21, 2018; Revised: November 8, 2018; Accepted: November 8, 2018; Published online: December 4, 2018  Show citation

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HOLECOVÁ, M., ZACH, P., HOLLÁ, K., ŠEBESTOVÁ, M., KLESNIAKOVÁ, M., ŠESTÁKOVÁ, A., ... KULFAN, J. (2018). Overwintering of ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on Scots pine in Central Europe. EJE, 115, Article 658-667. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2018.065
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