“Protected Biological Control” – Biological pest management in the greenhouse industry

Pilkington, Leigh J.; Messelink, G.J.; Lenteren, J.C. van; Mottee, Kristian Le

doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2009.05.022

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“…Biological control in greenhouse crops has proven to be very successful (Heinz et al 2004;Pilkington et al 2010), but a huge challenge still exists to combat pest species that currently cannot be controlled with natural enemies or to control pest species in crops where natural enemies do not establish well. One of the underlying problems may be that natural enemies are often still applied as ''biopesticides'' rather than seeing them as living organisms that require appropriate resources and conditions to survive and reproduce.…”

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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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“…Both the area on which it is used and the number of available biological control agents are still expanding (Pilkington et al 2010;van Lenteren 2012). Biological control programmes in greenhouses are often based on periodical releases of natural enemies, also referred to as augmentative biological control (van Lenteren 2012).…”

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

Messelink¹,

Bennison

Alomar³

et al. 2014

BioControl

229

131

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“…The favourable abiotic conditions and availability of tender plant parts for longer duration accompanied with more number of generations makes the management of T. vaporariorum more difficult. It needs more number of insecticidal applications to suppress the incidence, which leads to undesirable pesticide residues, killing of non-target organisms and development of resistance in T. vaporariorum to pesticides (van Lenteren, 2000;Sood et al, 2006;Pilkington et al, 2010;Pappas et al, 2013). Recently, an aphelinid parasitoid, Encarsia formosa Gahan (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) was found parasitizing greenhouse whitefly nymphs at Palampur, representing mid-hills of Himachal Pradesh.…”

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confidence: 99%

First record of Encarsia formosa Gahan, an aphelinid parasitoid of greenhouse whitefly from India and its dynamics on tomato grown under protected environment

Singh

Sood

2018

Journal of Biological Control

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Greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) is a key pest of tomato under protected environment in Himachal Pradesh. Recently, an aphelinid parasitoid, Encarsia formosa Gahan was observed to parasitize T. vaporariorum in mid-hill regions of Himachal Pradesh. It seems to be the first record of this aphelinid parasitoid from India. Population buildup of E. formosa was recorded in eight insecticide based greenhouse whitefly management modules comprising soil application of imidacloprid (0.009%) and foliar applications of spiromesifen (0.02%), thiamethoxam (0.01%) and azadirachtin (0.0003%) in tomato grown during summer cropping seasons of 2015 and 2016 under naturally ventilated polyhouse. Parasitization by E. formosa in the plants without treatment varied from 31.8 to 81.2 and 36.8 to 93.6 per cent during 2015 and 2016, respectively. The insecticidal module comprising single soil application of imidacloprid one day after transplanting followed by alternate foliar applications of azadirachtin starting 45 days after transplanting at 10 days interval proved favourable for buildup of E. formosa as compared to other insecticide based greenhouse whitefly management modules during both the seasons. Based on the observations recorded, it was observed that the parasitoid has the potential for inclusion in greenhouse whitefly management programme.

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“…On the other hand more than 30% of Palaearctic syrphid flies are known as aphid predators, i.e. important agents in biological pest control (Tenhumberg & Poehling 1995;Sadeghi & Gilbert 2000;Basky 2005;Pascual-Villalobos et al 2006; Thomson & Hoffmann 2009;Penvern et al 2010;Pilkington et al 2010). Larvae consume even one or two thousands aphids during the 7-10 day developing period (Visnyovszky 1989;Dib et al 2010;Hogg et al 2011).…”

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Hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) community of a cultivated arable field and the adjacent hedgerow near Debrecen, Hungary

Földesi

Kovács‐Hostyánszki

2014

Biologia

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A hoverfly (Syrphidae) community was investigated in a cultivated wheat field and the adjacent hedgerow near Debrecen (Hungary). We monitored the change of species richness and abundance of hoverflies along three transects in the hedgerow and in the wheat field in different distances (10 m, 20 m) from the hedgerow. The effect of sampling methods on the number of hoverfly species and individuals was analyzed. Two sampling methods were used to catch hoverflies: netting and pan traps. The whole sampling period was divided into three subperiods, which are early (22 nd April -2 nd June), middle (11 th June -1 st August) and late (6 th August -11 th September). Altogether 1,214 individuals of 22 species were sampled. Fourteen species with 78% of individuals belonged to the aphidophagous group, feeding on aphids as larvae. Altogether 861 individuals of 22 hoverfly species were sampled by netting and 353 individuals of 10 species by pan traps. The total number of hoverfly species was significant lower in the late period than in the early. The total abundance was higher in the middle period compared to the early. The species richness and abundance of aphidophagous species followed a similar pattern as the total species values. The species richness and abundance of hoverflies were significant higher in 10 m and 20 m distance in the wheat field than along the hedgerow. The results suggest that the pan traps were less efficient in the hedgerow than the netting, but in the wheat field they sampled more hoverflies because of visually alluring effect on hoverflies in the absence of flowers.

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“Protected Biological Control” – Biological pest management in the greenhouse industry

Cited by 113 publications

References 27 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

First record of Encarsia formosa Gahan, an aphelinid parasitoid of greenhouse whitefly from India and its dynamics on tomato grown under protected environment

Hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) community of a cultivated arable field and the adjacent hedgerow near Debrecen, Hungary

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