Optical Manipulations: An Advance Approach for Reducing Sucking Insect Pests

Ben‐Yakir, David; Antignus, Y.; Offir, Y.; Shahak, Yosepha

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4497-4_12

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“…Optical manipulation of natural lighting can also impact the behaviour of pests and their natural enemies. Studies have shown that the use of photoselective nets can reduce the invasion of whiteflies, aphids or thrips into a tomato or pepper crop and the subsequent viral diseases that they vector (i.e., Tomato yellow leaf curl virus) (Ben-Yakir et al 2012). This material should contain selective additives that allow photosynthetically active radiation to pass, but inhibit or reflect wavelengths that the pests perceive, such as UV (330-350 nm) and green-yellow (520-550 nm).…”

Section: Semiochemicalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects

Messelink¹,

Bennison

Alomar³

et al. 2014

BioControl

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Biological pest control in greenhouse crops is usually based on periodical releases of mass-produced natural enemies, and this method has been successfully applied for decades. However, in some cases there are shortcomings in pest control efficacy, which often can be attributed to the poor establishment of natural enemies. Their establishment and population numbers can be enhanced by providing additional resources, such as alternative food, prey, hosts, oviposition sites or shelters. Furthermore, natural enemy efficacy can be enhanced by using volatiles, adapting the greenhouse climate, avoiding pesticide side-effects and minimizing disrupting food web complexities. The special case of high value crops in a protected greenhouse environment offers tremendous opportunities to design and manage the system in ways that increase crop resilience to pest infestations. While we have outlined opportunities and tools to develop such systems, this review also identifies knowledge gaps, where additional research is needed to optimize these tools.

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Section: Semiochemicalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects

Messelink¹,

Bennison

Alomar³

et al. 2014

BioControl

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“…Equipped with UV-emitting fluorescent tubes, the insect killers effectively attract insects such as moths and beetles and prevent these insects from entering into greenhouses and stores that are open at night. In recent years, considerable interest has been generated in pest control technology that utilizes the responses of insects to light as a ''clean'' form of pest control that does not use synthetic pesticides (Antignus 2000;Ben-Yakir 2013;Emura and Tazawa 2004;Honda 2011;Johansen et al 2011;Tazawa 2009). Here, we review recent advances of pest control technologies that employ this method.…”

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Insect reactions to light and its applications to pest management

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Insects are able to see ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Nocturnal insects are often attracted to light sources that emit large amounts of UV radiation, and devices that exploit this behavior, such as light traps for forecasting pest outbreaks, and electric insect killers, have been developed. Some diurnal species are attracted to yellow; yellow pan traps are used for conducting surveys for pest outbreaks and yellow sticky plates are used for pest control. Lamps that give off yellow illumination have been used effectively to control the activity of nocturnal moths and thus reduce damage to fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Covering cultivation facilities with film that filters out near-UV radiation reduces the invasion of pests such as whiteflies and thrips into the facilities, thus reducing damage. Reflective material placed on cultivated land can control the approach of flying insects such as aphids. Future development and use of new light sources such as light-emitting diodes is anticipated for promoting integrated pest management.

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“…UV light is important for orientation, navigation and host finding [1,28]. Many insects prefer to move toward environments with a higher intensity of UV light [35,36].…”

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“…These pests, not only cause direct damage to plant tissues, but also transmit plant viruses and facilitate infections through bacteria and fungi. Furthermore, they excrete sticky honeydew, which contaminates the plant surface and serves as a growth substrate for pathogens [1]. Chemical insecticides have been the major control strategy; however, the control efficacy is not often satisfactory.…”

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A Greenhouse Test to Explore and Evaluate Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Insect Traps in the Monitoring and Control of Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Zhang

Li²,

Liu

et al. 2020

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Population control of small sucking insects has been challenging, and alternative control methods are constantly being sought. Visual traps have long been used to monitor and control pests. Colored sticky cards are widely used for diurnal pests, but their effects are influenced by environmental light conditions. Artificial light traps are mostly used for nocturnal pests. Here, we explored and evaluated light-emitting diode (LED) traps for the monitoring and control of small diurnal sucking insects using greenhouse tests targeting the greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum. We tested the trapping efficacy of the LED water pan trap, assessed the most attractive LED light and analyzed its efficacy under different weather conditions. The results showed that the LED water pan trap was too inefficient to be useful. Green LEDs were more attractive than yellow LEDs, UV LEDs and green-UV combinations. Regardless of sunny or cloudy conditions, the green LED trap caught more than twice the number of whiteflies than the yellow sticky card alone under summer shading conditions. Our study suggests that LED traps have a significant field application value in whitefly mass trapping and may also be efficient for other diurnal insects. The design of LED traps specific for diurnal insects is discussed.

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Optical Manipulations: An Advance Approach for Reducing Sucking Insect Pests

Cited by 14 publications

References 75 publications

Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects

Approaches to conserving natural enemy populations in greenhouse crops: current methods and future prospects

Insect reactions to light and its applications to pest management

A Greenhouse Test to Explore and Evaluate Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Insect Traps in the Monitoring and Control of Trialeurodes vaporariorum

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