Influence of Nezara viridula Feeding on Cotton Yield, Fiber Quality, and Seed Germination

Bommireddy, P. L.; Leonard, B. R.; Temple, J. H.

doi:10.1093/jee/100.5.1560

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“…Barbour et al (1990) suggested that Þber qualities may be reduced as a result of stink bug feeding. Similar to our Þndings, , Bommireddy et al (2007), and Roberts et al (2007) found that stink bug feeding negatively impacted Þber quality categories based on AFIS and HVI analyses.…”

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Relationship Between External Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Boll-Feeding Symptoms and Internal Boll Damage With Respect to Cotton Lint Gin-Out and Fiber Quality

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Cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., bolls from 17 field locations in northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, having 20% or greater internal boll damage, were studied to determine the relationship between external feeding symptoms and internal damage caused by stink bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) feeding. In 2006 and 2007, two cohorts of 100 bolls each were sampled at all field locations. The first cohort was removed as bolls reached approximately quarter size in diameter (2.4 cm). External and internal symptoms of stink bug feeding were assessed and tabulated. Concurrent to when the first cohort was collected, a second cohort of quarter-size-diameter bolls was identified, tagged, examined in situ for external feeding symptoms (sunken lesions), and harvested at the black seed coat stage. Harvested bolls were assessed for internal damage and locks were categorized (undamaged, minor damage, or major damage), dried, and ginned. Lint samples from each damage category were submitted for high volume instrument and advanced fiber information system quality analyses. Significant, moderately strong Pearson correlation coefficients existed between number of external stink bug feeding lesions and internal damage. Pearson correlation of total external lesions with total internal damage was stronger than any correlation among the other single components compared. Predictability plots indicated a rapid increase in relationship strength when relating external stink bug lesions to internal damage as the number of external lesions increased. Approximately 90% predictability of internal damage was achieved with four (2006) or six (2007) external lesions per boll. Gin-turnout and fiber quality decreased with increasing intensity of internal stink bug damage.

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Relationship Between External Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Boll-Feeding Symptoms and Internal Boll Damage With Respect to Cotton Lint Gin-Out and Fiber Quality

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“…Understanding the population dynamics of stink bugs in cotton and other agronomic hosts is important because the proximity and type of crop grown adjacent to cotton can affect the value of cotton within a Þeld (Toews and Shurley 2009). Developing cotton bolls are injured by the feeding activity of stink bugs, and this damage decreases the value of cotton by reducing yields and Þber quality (Willrich et al 2004a,b;Bommireddy et al 2007;Toews and Shurley 2009). Although stink bugs have been reported as an occasional pest in cotton Þelds for more than a century, their recent upsurge is believed to be due the advent of Bacillus thurengiensis technology combined with the boll weevil [Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman] eradication program that reduced the number of insecticide sprays, which provided indirect control of stink bug populations (Glover 1855, Morrill 1910, Greene and Herzog 1999.…”

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Seasonal Abundance and Population Structure of Brown Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Farmscapes Containing Corn, Cotton, Peanut, and Soybean

Herbert

Toews

2011

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

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Stink bugs are economically important pests of food and fiber production throughout the southeastern United States. In cotton, stink bugs feed on developing bolls thereby decreasing yield and fiber quality. The brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is a common species that is found throughout the southeast and feeds on a variety of wild and agronomic hosts. In this study, the population dynamics and reproductive biology of E. servus were assessed in 1.62–2.83-ha farmscapes planted with corn (Zea mays L.), cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), and soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. Farmscapes were sampled weekly using whole plant sampling for corn and sweep net sampling in cotton, peanut, and soybean. In 2010, but not 2009, nymphs were classified by instar, and adults were dissected to rate gonads as nonrepro-ductive, intermediate, or reproductive. Regardless of year, stink bugs observed in corn during the spring and early summer and were a mixture of all three reproductive stages. The number of E. servus nymphs and adults was low in all crops during the summer (July, August, and early September). In late September, the number of fifth instars rose sharply followed by an increase in the number of nonreproductive adults, which implies that these adults resulted from reproduction as opposed to immigration. Incidence of late instars and nonreproductive adults was extremely low for corn, cotton, and peanut, and these host plants did not seem to be highly suitable reproductive hosts. Results from this study are useful for pest management programs that focus on reducing stink bug populations on a landscape scale.

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“…In the southeast, the green stink bug, Acrosternum hilare (Say), brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say), and southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula L., are the predominant pests ). Along with other phytophagous pentatomids, they reduce yield and lint quality by feeding on developing bolls, resulting in boll deformation, reduced yield and lint/ seed quality, and boll abscission (Wene and Sheets 1964, Toscano and Stern 1976, Barbour et al 1990, Greene et al 2000, Roberts et al 2005, Goerger et al 2006, Bommireddy et al 2007). Feeding of stink bugs also allows entry of microorganisms that may contribute to physiological damage and degradation of fruit (anonymous 1981, Verma 1986, Panizzi 1997, Medrano et al 2009).…”

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Effects of Adjacent Habitat on Populations of Stink Bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in Cotton as Part of a Variable Agricultural Landscape in South Carolina

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Reay‐Jones

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Environ Entomol

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The distribution of phytophagous stink bugs and associated boll injury in margins of cotton fields bordering various agronomic crops and woodlands were studied in 2007 and 2008. Two commercial cotton fields, ranging in size from 7.8 to 12.1 ha in Barnwell and Lee Counties, SC, were sampled weekly each year along predetermined transects at 0, 5, 10, and 25 m from the outside margin into the cotton field. Stink bugs were sampled using a ground cloth (0.91 by 0.91 m), and quarter-sized bolls (≈ 2.5 cm in diameter) were collected and examined for internal damage. Density (bugs/row-m) of total stink bugs (adults plus nymphs) was greatest in cotton adjacent to peanut. Boll injury was significantly greater in cotton adjacent to soybean and peanut than in cotton next to other habitats, including corn, cotton, and woodlands, during midseason. Density of nymphs was greatest in cotton adjacent to peanut during mid and late season. Densities of total stink bugs and adults were greatest in cotton immediately adjacent (0 m) to all bordering crops and decreased as distance from the margin increased. Boll injury was greatest in cotton immediately adjacent (0 m) to the bordering crop in mid and late season. Because densities of stink bugs and boll injury vary spatially and temporally along field margins of cotton and can vary significantly based on the adjacent crop, such factors should be considered when developing integrated pest management strategies in cotton.

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Influence of Nezara viridula Feeding on Cotton Yield, Fiber Quality, and Seed Germination

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Relationship Between External Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Boll-Feeding Symptoms and Internal Boll Damage With Respect to Cotton Lint Gin-Out and Fiber Quality

Relationship Between External Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Boll-Feeding Symptoms and Internal Boll Damage With Respect to Cotton Lint Gin-Out and Fiber Quality

Seasonal Abundance and Population Structure of Brown Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Farmscapes Containing Corn, Cotton, Peanut, and Soybean

Effects of Adjacent Habitat on Populations of Stink Bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in Cotton as Part of a Variable Agricultural Landscape in South Carolina

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