Effect of Predator Exclusion on Cassava Infested with Tetranychid Mites (Acari: Tetranychidae)
作者:
A. R. Braun,
A. C. Bellotti,
J. M. Guerrero,
L. T. Wilson,
期刊:
Environmental Entomology
(OUP Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 4
页码: 711-714
ISSN:0046-225X
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1093/ee/18.4.711
出版商: Oxford University Press
关键词: Arachnida;cassava;permethrin;predator exclusion
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Chemical exclusion of predators with permethrin was used to test the effectiveness of the phytoseiid predatorAmblyseius limonicusGarman and McGregor and a complex of minor predators in the biological control of tetranychid (Mononychellusspp.,Tetranychusspp., andOligonychus peruvianusMcGregor) pests of cassava,Manihot esculentaCrantz.Mononychellusspp. andTetranychusspp. populations were significantly higher and predator populations significantly lower in permethrin-treated plots than in control plots. Numbers ofO. peruvianuswere not affected by permethrin. Yield of fresh commercial roots and of dry matter was significantly higher in plots with predators than in plots where permethrin was applied every 2 wk for predator exclusion. Yields of neither fresh nor dry matter in control plots were significantly different from yields in plots that had been protected with acaricide, suggesting that predation kept spider mite populations below economically damaging levels.
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