scholarly journals Remote Sensing of Selected Winter and Spring Host Plants of Tarnished Plant Bug (Heteroptera: Miridae) and Herbicide Use Strategies as a Management Tactic

2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (08) ◽  
pp. 1313-1327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Sudbrink ◽  
Steven J. Thomson ◽  
Reginald S. Fletcher ◽  
F. Aubrey Harris ◽  
Patrick J. English ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Tarnished Plant Bug ◽  
Herbicide Use

scholarly journals Host Plants of the Tarnished Plant Bug (Heteroptera: Miridae) in Central Texas

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Esquivel ◽  
S. V. Mowery
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
Tarnished Plant Bug ◽  
Central Texas

scholarly journals Tarnished Plant Bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2004 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne N. Dixon ◽  
Thomas R. Fasulo
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
Fruit Trees ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Lygus Lineolaris ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Tarnished Plant Bug ◽  
Nursery Stock ◽  
Cultivated Plant

Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), the tarnished plant bug, attacks a wide variety of economically important herbaceous plants, vegetable crops, commercial flower plants, fruit trees, and nursery stock (Kelton 1975). In fact, over half of the cultivated plant species grown in the United States are listed as host plants for tarnished plant bugs (Capinera 2001). This document is EENY-245 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 320), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: November 2001.  EENY-245/IN513: Tarnished Plant Bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae) (ufl.edu)

Treating Scots pine seedlings with the herbicide atrazine does not affect shoot chemistry or feeding and oviposition by Lygusrugulipennis

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarmo K. Holopainen ◽  
Jaana Tuhkalainen ◽  
Pirjo Kainulainen ◽  
Heli Satka
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
Resin Acids ◽  
Tarnished Plant Bug ◽  
Conifer Seedlings ◽  
Pine Seedlings ◽  
Herbicide Treatments ◽  
Neoabietic Acid ◽  
Atrazine Treatment ◽  
Herbicide Atrazine ◽  
Total Concentrations

Polyphagous Lygus (Heteroptera: Miridae) bugs, which have one of the widest documented host-plant ranges, have accepted nursery-grown conifer seedlings as host plants only recently. One explanation for this adaptation to the conifer nursery environment could be the increased attractiveness of conifer seedlings due to herbicide treatments. In three laboratory experiments, we tested whether atrazine treatments (2 or 4 kg•ha−1) affected shoot chemistry of pine seedlings and the feeding and oviposition behaviour of the European tarnished plant bug, Lygusrugulipennis Popp. Shoot growth of the pine seedlings was decreased by the atrazine treatment (2 kg•ha−1) in only one experiment. The number of feeding lesions caused by Lygus bugs and the number of eggs laid per seedling were not affected by herbicide treatments, nor was the proportion of seedlings damaged. Concentrations of total amino acids were not affected by the herbicide in any of the experiments. In one experiment, the level of lysine was increased in the atrazine treatment. Terpenes and resin acids were analysed only in one experiment, and total concentrations of these defence compounds were not affected by atrazine. Dominant monoterpenes were α-pinene and 3-carene, the latter varying strongly between individual seedlings. Abietic acid and neoabietic acid were the dominant abietane and pimarane resin acids. The results suggest that applications of atrazine are not likely to reduce the resistance of pine seedlings to Lygus bugs. Herbicides may have an indirect effect by reducing the availability of alternative host plants for bugs. Other potential causes for increased numbers of Lygus bugs on nursery-grown conifer seedlings are discussed.

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