Lady Beetle Research Data
Researcher ORCID Identifier
Release Date
2024
Publisher
University of Kentucky Libraries
Description
Experiments examined the effect of photoperiod on the expression of adult diapause in the Palearctic ladybird beetle Coccinella septempunctata, within 10 years of its discovery in North America. The study used beetles from two populations in eastern United States and focused on two aspects of diapause. First, the effects of daylength on the induction and depth (or duration) of diapause were examined by rearing and maintaining adult beetles from Tompkins County, New York,(approx. 42.4°N, 76.5°W) under six constant photoperiods until oviposition, death, or the passage of 125 days. Second, the seasonal progression of diapause maintenance and termination under natural conditions was examined by periodically (between October and April) testing the photoperiodic responses of overwintering adults that had been held out-of-doors; this test used beetles from Bergen County, New Jersey.
Two Data sets are included: (1) Photoperiodic effects on the pattern of reproduction (oviposition versus reproductive diapause) in female Coccinella septempunctata from Tompkins County, New York, USA. and (2) Seasonal effects on the progression of dormancy (diapause and postdiapause development) in Coccinella septempunctata held under natural conditions out-of-doors in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/h6da-7054
Rights
This dataset is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the dataset creators and publication source are credited and that changes (if any) are clearly indicated.
File Format
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Spatial Coverage
Dataset 1 Tompkins County, New York (approx. 42.4°N, 76.5°W)
Dataset 2 Lyndhurst Township, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA (approx. 40.8°N, 74.1°W).
Temporal Coverage
Dataset 1: June 1981, Dataset2: August 1976
Related Content
Publications that cite or use the data:
Obrycki, J.J., C.A. Tauber, & M.J. Tauber. Diapause in eastern North American populations of Coccinella septempunctata. Eur. J. Entomol. (submitted).
Recommended Citation
Obrycki, John J., "Diapause in eastern North American populations of Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)" (2024). Lady Beetle Research Data. 9.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/entomology_lady_beetle_data/9
