WELCOME TO

INSECT CONSERVATION RESEARCH

Why

1. Insect is a big group of animal (approximately 56 % of all species recorded) and its valuable role in ecosystem

2. Increasing rate of habitat destruction (due to illegal logging, landuse-change, habitat isolation and fragmentation etc)

3. There are very limited information available

4. Limited/ Lack of human resources working on insect conservation

Undisturbed secondary forest

Production forest

Disturbed forest

Illegal logging

Insect conservation research

Biological control

Species diversity

Insect conservation strategies

Action

Scientific evidences & species list

What and how to use natural enemies

Insect diversity Research

1. Inventory insect species

2. Identifying natural enemies diversity

3. Response of insect toward habitat disturbance

4. Monitoring Insect Communities

Biological control research

1. Identification potential natural enemies as biological control agents

2. How to use natural enemies (experimental study)

3. Natural enemies conservation in the field

4. Non target impact assessment

Species diversity and abundance of ant in Salak Mountain

Cidahu Cisarua Gunung Bunder Jayanegara Total

Genus 19 23 21 26 34

Spesies 38 39 41 48 74

Individu 727 1424 910 1416 4477

Spesiesdominan(number of individual)

Pheidole sp.5 (183)Pheidole sp.7 (121)

Pheidologeton sp.1 (967)Pheidole sp.5 (95)

Pheidologeton sp.2 (275)Pheidologeton sp.1 (120)

Pheidologetonsp.1 (773)Pheidologetonsp.2 (125)

Pheidole sp.5 (363)Pheidole sp.7 (121) Pheidologeton sp.1 (1861)Pheidologeton sp.2 (406)

Spesies rare(only found on each area)

Crematogastersp.2Hypoponera sp.4

Aphaenogaster sp.1Cardiocondyla sp.3

Cardiocondyla sp.1 Pachycondylasp.3 Plathythyreasp.1

Crematogaster sp.2Hypoponera sp.4 Aphaenogaster sp.1Cardiocondyla sp.3 Cardiocondyla sp.1 Pachycondyla sp.3 Plathythyrea sp.1

Habitat Undisturbed forest Disturbed forest Production forest

Disturbed forest

Scatterplot 2DFinal Configuration, dimension 1 vs. dimension 2

Dimension 1

Dim

ensi

on 2

CD1

CD2CD3

CD4

CD5

CS1

CS2

CS3

CS4

CS5

GB1

GB2

GB3

GB4

GB5

JY1

JY2

JY3

JY4

JY5

-1.2

-0.8

-0.4

0.0

0.4

0.8

1.2

1.6

-1.6 -1.2 -0.8 -0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 1.6

Undisturbed forest

Disturbed forest

Disturbed forest

Production forest

Two dimensional scaling plot based on Sorenson’s indices for measuring similarity of species composition between single sampling sites (CD = Cidahu, JY = Jayanegara, CS = Cisarua, GB = Gunung Bunder)

Effects of habitat isolation on species richness of parasitic Hymenoptera

±Std. Dev.±Std. Err.Mean

Box & Whisker Plot: SPECIES

Distance from forest (m)

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spec

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10

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Forest Forest margin >50-250 500-1000 1500-2200

Mean number of recorded parasitic Hymenoptera species ± SD (box) and SE (whisker) in cacao agroforestry system located in different distance to the nearest forest: F4,11 =2.07, P= 0.1526, n= 16. The sum of observations of parasitic Hymenoptera species for the following classes was: Forest , n=2; Margin (0-50 m), n=4; 50-250 m, n=5;500-900, n=3; >1500 m, n=2

Effects of landscape on parasitoid parasitism rateEffects of landscape on parasitoid parasitism rate

74.63

43.27

08.56

62.99

13.51

26.74

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Complex(TNGH)-1

Complex(TNGH)-2

Simple(subang)-

1

Simple(subang)-

2

Complex(PWT)-1

Complex(PWT)-2

Simple(Bantul)

Landscape typeLandscape type

Par

asiti

sm (%

)P

aras

itism

(%)

Food web of Tritrophic Interaction among Hyperparasitoid, Parasitoid and Hosts in Complex LanscapeFood web of Tritrophic Interaction among Hyperparasitoid, Parasitoid and Hosts in Complex Lanscape

HP20 HP21 HP30 HP34

P1 P2 P3 P4 P6 P10 P11 P1

2

P14 P17 P23 P24 P26 P31 P35 P36

SI2 SI8 SI11 SI12 SI13 SI14 SI17 SI18 SI20

HP=hiperparasitoid species, P=Parasitoid species, SL=HostHP=hiperparasitoid species, P=Parasitoid species, SL=Host

Food web of Tritrophic Interaction among Hyperparasitoid, Parasitoid and Host in Simple Landscape Food web of Tritrophic Interaction among Hyperparasitoid, Parasitoid and Host in Simple Landscape

HP29 HP34

P1 P5 P6 P24 P26 P30 P33 P35 P36 P37

SI1 SI2 SI8 SI11 SI12 SI13 SI17 SI19

HP=hiperparasitoid species, P=Parasitoid species, SL=HostHP=hiperparasitoid species, P=Parasitoid species, SL=Host

FUTURE WORKS

• Research on Pollinator Crisis• Research on dung beetle• Develop insect conservation trainings• Develop books, checklist, scientific

publications• Develop database for insect

distribution.

PROBLEMS

1. Lack of capability in writing popular and scientific publications (especially in english)

2. Limited references (most of scientific journals and books are very expensive to buy)

3. Limited statistical and GIS software

4. Limited equipment

RESEARCH TEAM

Astrid IvoneNurhasanah