scholarly journals The Contribution of Surrounding Margins in the Promotion of Natural Enemies in Mediterranean Apple Orchards

Insects ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Neus Rodríguez-Gasol ◽  
Jesús Avilla ◽  
Yahana Aparicio ◽  
Judit Arnó ◽  
Rosa Gabarra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Enemies ◽  
Habitat Management ◽  
Apple Tree ◽  
Sinapis Alba ◽  
Apple Orchards ◽  
Eriosoma Lanigerum ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Moricandia Arvensis ◽  
Dysaphis Plantaginea ◽  
Lobularia Maritima

(1) Habitat management can enhance beneficial arthropod populations and provide ecosystem services such as biological control. However, the implementation of ecological infrastructures inside orchards has a number of practical limitations. Therefore, planting/growing insectary plants in the margins of orchards should be considered as an alternative approach. (2) Here, we assessed the efficacy of a flower margin composed by four insectary plant species (Achillea millefolium, Lobularia maritima, Moricandia arvensis and Sinapis alba), which was placed on an edge of four Mediterranean apple orchards to attract natural enemies of two apple tree aphids (Dysaphis plantaginea and Eriosoma lanigerum). We also characterized the natural enemies present in the aphid colonies. (3) Our results show that the implementation of a flower margin at the edge of apple orchards attracts predators (Syrphidae, Thysanoptera, Araneae, Heteroptera, Coleoptera) and parasitoids. Parasitoids are the main natural enemies present in aphid colonies in our area. (4) The implementation of the flower margins successfully recruited natural enemy populations, and the presence of parasitoids in the surroundings of the orchards increased the parasitism of D. plantaginea colonies.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Flower and Grass Strips for Augmentation of Beneficial Arthropods in Apple Orchards

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaoke Dong ◽  
Mengjing Xia ◽  
Cheng Li ◽  
Baofeng Mu ◽  
Zhiyong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Natural Enemies ◽  
Cover Crops ◽  
Habitat Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alternative Prey ◽  
Apple Orchards ◽  
Beneficial Arthropods ◽  
Arthropod Predators

Sowing plants that provide food resources in orchards is a potential habitat management practice for enhancing biological control. Flowering plants (providing pollen and nectar) and grasses (providing alternative prey) can benefit natural enemies in orchards; however, little is known about their relative importance. We studied the effect of management practices (flower strips, grass strips, and spontaneous grass) on arthropod predators under organic apple management regimes in apple orchards in Beijing, China. Orchards located at two different sites were assessed for 3 years (2017–2019). The cover crops had a significant impact on the abundance and diversity of arthropod predators. The grass treatment consistently supported significantly greater densities of alternative prey resources for predators, and predators were more abundant in the grass than in the other treatments. The Shannon–Wiener diversity was significantly higher for the cover crop treatment than for the control. Community structure was somewhat similar between the grass and control, but it differed between the flower treatment and grass/control. Weak evidence for an increase in mobile predators (ladybirds and lacewings) in the orchard canopy was found. Ladybirds and lacewings were more abundant in the grass treatment than in the other treatments in 2019 only, while the aphid abundance in the grass treatment was lowest. The fact that grass strips promoted higher predator abundance and stronger aphid suppression in comparison to the flower strips suggests that providing alternative prey for predators has great biocontrol service potential. The selection of cover crops and necessary management for conserving natural enemies in orchards are discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals Temporal asynchrony, spatial segregation and seasonal abundance of aphids on apple trees

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Perdikis ◽  
D. Lykouressis ◽  
G. Mitropoulou ◽  
P. Tsiantis
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Natural Enemies ◽  
Aphid Species ◽  
Apple Orchard ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
Seasonal Abundance ◽  
Eriosoma Lanigerum ◽  
Apple Trees ◽  
Aphis Pomi ◽  
Dysaphis Plantaginea

The species composition and seasonal abundance of aphids and their natural enemies were investigated in an apple orchard located in central Peloponnese. For that purpose shoots were collected at weekly intervals. The aphid species Aphis pomi De Geer (Hemiptera: Aphididae), Dysaphis plantaginea (Passerini) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann) (Hemiptera: Eriosomatidae) were recorded. In both years of the study, A. pomi developed higher populations than the other two species. The population of A. pomi was high in June and July. D. plantaginea was present in April and May, with high numbers mainly in May, whilst E. lanigerum was recorded in low numbers from May to July. The number of aphids was not found to differ significantly between samples collected from the northern and southern part of the trees. The species composition of aphid population on each sampled shoot, documented spatial segregation between A. pomi and D. plantaginea. It was proved that the eggs were more commonly laid near the buds of the central part of the twigs. The natural enemies found were predators belonging to the families of Coccinellidae, Chrysopidae, Syrphidae and Anthocoridae. Generally, their numbers were low.

scholarly journals First Report of Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann, 1802) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on the Apple tree Crop in Espirito Santo State, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
Fernando Zanotti Madalon ◽  
Alixelhe Pacheco Damascena ◽  
Rodrigo Zanotti Madalon ◽  
Luis Moreira Araujo Junior ◽  
José Romário de Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Apple Tree ◽  
Eriosoma Lanigerum ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
First Report ◽  
Tree Crop ◽  
Espirito Santo

SOME ASPECTS OF A RYANIA-GLYODIN SPRAY SCHEDULE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA APPLE ORCHARDS: I. ENTOMOLOGICAL, HORTICULTURAL, AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS

1957 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. V. G. Morgan ◽  
N. H. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Codling Moth ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Apple Orchards ◽  
Predacious Mites ◽  
Eriosoma Lanigerum ◽  
Woolly Apple Aphid ◽  
Aphis Pomi ◽  
Lime Sulphur ◽  
Modified Schedule

In apple orchards at Summerland, B.C., four applications of 100 per cent ryania at 48 lb. per acre per application, with glyodin as the fungicide, gave control of light infestations of the codling moth, Carpocapsa pomonella (L.), similar to that from four sprays of 50 per cent DDT at 12 lb. per acre, with lime-sulphur, ferbam, and wettable sulphur. In a heavily-infested orchard, ryania was inferior to DDT. The ryania-glyodin schedule also controlled the woolly apple aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausm.), and the apple aphid, Aphis pomi DeG. It had little detrimental effect on predacious mites. Except for the apple rust mite, Vasates schlechtendali (Nal.), phytophagous mites were usually not so troublesome where the modified schedule was used.Packing-house records showed that the ryania-glyodin schedule reduced the size and lowered the grade of McIntosh, Newtown, and Delicious apples, and reduced the size of Red Delicious. Grade of Red Delicious was better with the modified than with the standard schedule. The 1954 applications of the modified schedule evidently reduced the size of the 1955 crops on all varieties; most seriously affected were McIntosh with 76.2 per cent reduction and Delicious with 53.7 per cent.

Cover crops in Victorian apple orchards: Effects on production, natural enemies and pests across a season

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 675-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole J. Bone ◽  
Linda J. Thomson ◽  
Peter M. Ridland ◽  
Peter Cole ◽  
Ary A. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Natural Enemies ◽  
Cover Crops ◽  
Apple Orchards

scholarly journals POPULAR AND ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.—No. 2.: THE APPLE TREE TENT CATERPILLAR—THE AMERICAN LACKEY MOTH (Clisiocampa Americana HAR.)

1889 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 74-76
Author(s):  
James Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Apple Tree ◽  
Apple Orchards ◽  
Tent Caterpillar

There are two kinds of caterpillars which every year commit serious depredations in our Canadian apple orchards, although they by no means confine their attentions to that tree. These are the larvæ of the American and Forest Lackey Moths, two species of brown moths which frequently fly into houses at night during July, and draw attention by their headlong, reckless flight, dashing themselves against the ceiling and the walls, and very often finishing up by getting into the lamp chimney.

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