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Experimental Evaluation of Predators and Parasitoids in Suppressing Greenbugs (Homoptera: Aphididae) in Sorghum and Wheat

 

作者: Marlin E. Rice,   Gerald E. Wilde,  

 

期刊: Environmental Entomology  (OUP Available online 1988)
卷期: Volume 17, issue 5  

页码: 836-841

 

ISSN:0046-225X

 

年代: 1988

 

DOI:10.1093/ee/17.5.836

 

出版商: Oxford University Press

 

关键词: Insecta;biological control;Schizaphis graminum

 

数据来源: OUP

 

摘要:

The effectiveness of endemic predators and parasitoids as biological control agents of the greenbug,Schizaphis graminum(Rondani), was experimentally evaluated during 1985 and 1986 in Kansas winter wheat,Triticum aestivum, and grain sorghum,Sorghum bicolor.Mechanical exclusion was used as the experimental method of evaluation. The coccinellidsColeomegilla maculata lengiTimberlake,Hippodamia convergensGuèrin, andScymnusspp. were the predominant predators of greenbugs in sorghum and comprised 89% of the predator population.Lysiphlebus testaceipes(Cresson) was the most abundant primary parasitoid in sorghum. The natural enemy complex was able to suppress experimental greenbug densities at all stages of sorghum growth from 3-leaf through the boot stage. The impact ofL., testaceipeson greenbugs was sporadic between locations. In winter wheat,H. convergenswas the most abundant natural enemy and significantly suppressed greenbug densities. Natural enemies, primarily coccinellids, consistently reduced experimental greenbug populations in winter wheat and grain sorghum.

 

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