Preference, Developmental Time, Adult Longevity and Fecundity of Green Peach Aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae) on Spinach

Abstract

Spinach, Spinacia oleracea L. breeding lines and a commercial cultivar were evaluated for differences in green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer), preference, developmental time, adult longevity and fecundity. Aphid preference varied significantly among the breeding lines and the commercial cultivar ‘Kent.’ Line F70 was the only line significantly non-preferred when compared with ‘Kent’. Significant differences in aphid developmental time, adult longevity and fecundity were detected. Aphids held on line F70 required a longer period to reach reproductive age and produced fewer young than aphids held on ‘Kent.’

Behavioral and biological responses of black bean aphid (Aphis fabae, Scopoli, 1763) on seven Algerian local broad bean cultivars

“…In the present study, the effect of cultivars on the prereproductive period was absent. In contrast, several works showed that this effect was present, for example, the green peach aphid Myzus persicae (Sulzer, 1776) on spinach, Spinacia oleracea L. (Mcleod et al, 1991), the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover, 1877on chrysanthemum and cucumber (Storer & van Emden, 1995;van Steenis & El-Khawass, 1995), the bird cherry-oat aphid Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus, 1758) on wheat and triticale (Hesler & Tharp, 2005), the greenbug Schizaphis graminum (Rondani, 1852) on wheat (Castro et al, 2001), and the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum on alfalfa, Medicago sativa (Golawska et al, 2008). Also, Guillaume & Boissot (2001) observed that the resistant cultivar of melon was prolonged the larval development of the melonworm Diaphania hyalinata (Linnaeus, 1767) to 17.08 days that the susceptible cultivar (12.57 days).…”