Evaluating integrated pest management tactics for onion thrips and pathogens they transmit to onion

2017 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Leach ◽  
Stephen Reiners ◽  
Marc Fuchs ◽  
Brian Nault
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Onion Thrips ◽  
Management Tactics

Second-level integrated pest management in commercial apple orchards

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Prokopy ◽  
Daniel R. Cooley ◽  
Wesley R. Autio ◽  
William M. Coli
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Insect Pests ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Apple Orchards ◽  
Single Class ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Management Tactics

AbstractAs historical background helpful to understanding current concepts and practices of apple pest management, we review the origin and rise of key pests of apple in North America and the evolution of approaches to their management, culminating with the concept of integrated pest management (IPM). We propose four levels of integration of orchard pest management practices. First-level IPM integrates chemically based and biologically based management tactics for a single class of pests, such as arthropods, diseases, weeds or vertebrates. Second-level IPM, the focus of our effort here, integrates multiple management tactics across all classes of pests. We describe components of second-level IPM for Massachusetts apple orchards, which are threatened each year by an exceptionally broad range of injurious pests. We illustrate the tentative advantages and shortcomings of second-level IPM using 1993 data from six commercial orchard test blocks. Our predominant approach was to use chemically based tactics for controlling arthropods, diseases and weeds early in the growing season, and afterwards to rely exclusively (for insects) or largely (for other pests) on biologically based tactics, such as cultural, behavioral, and biological controls. Compared with nearby first-level IPM blocks, insecticide use in 1993 was reduced substantially (about 30%), with only slightly more insect injury to fruit and little difference in populations of foliar insect pests. The results for mite pests and diseases were less encouraging although summer pruning significantly reduced disease injury caused by flyspeck. We discuss how second-level IPM poses special biological or operational challenges to apple pest management practitioners. The concept has merit, but refinements are necessary before it can be recommended broadly to commercial apple growers in Massachusetts as an economical and reliable alternative to first-level IPM.

scholarly journals Towards integrated pest management of Thrips tabaci in onions

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 188-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.J. Workman ◽  
N.A. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Natural Enemies ◽  
Thrips Tabaci ◽  
Small Field ◽  
Onion Thrips ◽  
Entomogenous Fungi ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Field Plots ◽  
Selective Insecticide

Populations of onion thrips Thrips tabaci and their natural enemies were monitored in small field plots of onions to which standard insecticide (methamidophos endosulfan and chlorpyrophos) selective insecticide (imidacloprid and spinosad) organic (YR015) insecticide or no insecticide treatments were applied The mean number of thrips per plant was kept below 12 in the standard and selective treatments The numbers of thrips in the organic and no insecticide treatments were comparable reaching over 60 thrips per plant This resulted in increased plant damage and shorter leaves High rainfall in 200102 coincided with a reduction in thrips numbers in untreated plots which peaked at 70 thrips per plant compared with nearly 500 thrips per plant in the drier 200001 season Natural enemies observed in the unsprayed and organic treatments included Ceranisius menes Aeolothrips fasciatum Buchananiella whitei syphids and entomogenous fungi None of these natural enemies increased sufficiently to provide effective thrips control No natural enemies were found in the standard or selective insecticide treated plots

scholarly journals The Major Biological Approaches in the Integrated Pest Management of Onion Thrips, Thrips Tabaci (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wondimagegn Atilaw Woldemelak
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Insect Pest ◽  
Plant Secondary Metabolites ◽  
Thrips Tabaci ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Onion Thrips ◽  
Nontarget Species ◽  
Polyphagous Insect ◽  
Wilt Virus

AbstractThrips tabaci Lindeman is a cosmopolitan and polyphagous insect pest. It is known worldwide and recorded on more than 300 plant species. T. tabaci is a key pest of onion and several other crops, and its control is vital to the production and profitability of crops. If onion thrips population is not controlled, damage can reduce yield volume and quality. In addition to direct damage to the host plants, T. tabaci has been characterized as an asymptomatic vector of three devastating tospovirus species, such as Tomato spotted wilt virus, Iris yellow spot virus, and Tomato yellow ring virus. For this reason, several synthetic insecticides were used for control. However, these insecticides bring unwanted effects, like pesticide resistance, elimination of nontarget species, environmental pollution, and threats to human health. To solve the negative consequences of insecticides, biopesticides, such as plant secondary metabolites, entomopathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and nematodes, have been recognized as effective alternatives. The use of plant-based insecticides and entomopathogenic control methods gained more attention in integrated pest management. Their strong side is lack of residues, saving beneficial insects and minimizing air and water pollution. Plant-derived compounds and entomopathogenic biological control agents offered a variety of biological modes of actions against onion thrips, such as repellency, feeding deterrence, anti-oviposition, fecundity deterrence, metamorphosis inhibition, and parasiting the host’s body.

scholarly journals Biological parameters of onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman on onion cultivars

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maher Ahmed Moraiet ◽  
Mohammad Shafiq Ansari ◽  
Rabiya Basri
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Allium Cepa ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
Thrips Tabaci ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Biological Parameters ◽  
Onion Thrips

Abstract Biological parameters of the onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman were studied on the following onion (Allium cepa L.) cultivars: Nasik Red Plus N-53, Onion Dr-301 (Krishna), Onion White, and Nasik Red, at 25±1°C and 65±5% RH. Significant (p < 0.05) differences were found in the life stages and fertility life tables on different cultivars except in the pupal stages. More information about the biological parameters of T. tabaci on onion cultivars can help in designing Integrated Pest Management programs for onion thrips.

Electron investigations of rhabdovirus-like particles in mexican bean beetles and crickets

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-379
Author(s):  
J. R. Adams ◽  
G. J Tompkins ◽  
A. M. Heimpel ◽  
E. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Acheta Domesticus ◽  
Epilachna Varivestis ◽  
House Cricket ◽  
Similar Morphology ◽  
Bean Beetle

As part of a continual search for potential pathogens of insects for use in biological control or on an integrated pest management program, two bacilliform virus-like particles (VLP) of similar morphology have been found in the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Mulsant and the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L. ).Tissues of diseased larvae and adults of E. varivestis and all developmental stages of A. domesticus were fixed according to procedures previously described. While the bean beetles displayed no external symptoms, the diseased crickets displayed a twitching and shaking of the metathoracic legs and a lowered rate of activity.Examinations of larvae and adult Mexican bean beetles collected in the field in 1976 and 1977 in Maryland and field collected specimens brought into the lab in the fall and reared through several generations revealed that specimens from each collection contained vesicles in the cytoplasm of the midgut filled with hundreds of these VLP's which were enveloped and measured approximately 16-25 nm x 55-110 nm, the shorter VLP's generally having the greater width (Fig. 1).

Prospects for Integrated Pest Management of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug in Washington Tree Fruits

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth H. Beers ◽  
Adrian Marshall ◽  
Jim Hepler ◽  
Josh Milnes
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug ◽  
Stink Bug ◽  
Tree Fruits
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