Role of Parasitoids and Predators in the Management of Insect Pests

Ballal, Chandish R.; Verghese, Abraham

doi:10.1007/978-81-322-2089-3_28

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“…Parasitoids are depends on or withininsect host for their foods and then ultimately killing the host. They are used as biological control agents it means similar to chemical pesticides but they attain pest management in an environmentally friendly way (Machtinger et al, 2015;Ballal and Verghese, 2015). Different types of beneficial insect parasitoids are wasps, flies, beetles etc.…”

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Chemical Pesticides and Their Impact on Agriculture and Health-A Review

Sharma,

Pandey

2021

JGV

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Populationof of India more than 67 percent lives in rural areas, where the main occupation of the people is agriculture. Agriculture is the backbone of the India's economy as well as the way of life of Indian people. Agriculture safety and food security are the concern to the growing human population all over the world. The immoderate use of pesticides causes negative effects on agriculture and human health. Farmers can be exposed to pesticides in the treatment of crops, pest control and plants. Pesticide includes a range of compounds such as insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, rodenticides, and nematicides, etc. They are not targeting the pest but non target plants animal (natural enemies) such as predators, parasitoids, pollinators, etc. also affected. The harmful effects of chemical pesticides on non-target pests are the major problem in the environment. Along with nontarget pests, soil organisms like nematodes, microarthropods, earthworms are also disturbed by the use of pesticides in agriculture. Many scientists have reported the effects of pesticides exposure on the health problems like asthma, cancer, respiratory infection, cardiovascular disease, etc. There are several methods to protect human health and agricultural hazards associated with pesticides including pest control strategies in the IPM (Integrated Pest Management) approach, biocontrol and use of environmentfriendly pesticides.

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Section: Parasitoidsmentioning

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Chemical Pesticides and Their Impact on Agriculture and Health-A Review

Sharma,

Pandey

2021

JGV

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“…Parasitoid wasps are essential insects for the biological control of agricultural pests [8]. They lay eggs inside the body of their arthropod hosts, where the immature offspring Parasitoid wasps are essential insects for the biological control of agricultural pests [8].…”

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The Viromes of Six Ecosystem Service Provider Parasitoid Wasps

Caldas-Garcia,

Santos,

Fonseca

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Parasitoid wasps are fundamental insects for the biological control of agricultural pests. Despite the importance of wasps as natural enemies for more sustainable and healthy agriculture, the factors that could impact their species richness, abundance, and fitness, such as viral diseases, remain almost unexplored. Parasitoid wasps have been studied with regard to the endogenization of viral elements and the transmission of endogenous viral proteins that facilitate parasitism. However, circulating viruses are poorly characterized. Here, RNA viromes of six parasitoid wasp species are studied using public libraries of next-generation sequencing through an integrative bioinformatics pipeline. Our analyses led to the identification of 18 viruses classified into 10 families (Iflaviridae, Endornaviridae, Mitoviridae, Partitiviridae, Virgaviridae, Rhabdoviridae, Chuviridae, Orthomyxoviridae, Xinmoviridae, and Narnaviridae) and into the Bunyavirales order. Of these, 16 elements were described for the first time. We also found a known virus previously identified on a wasp prey which suggests viral transmission between the insects. Altogether, our results highlight the importance of virus surveillance in wasps as its service disruption can affect ecology, agriculture and pest management, impacting the economy and threatening human food security.

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“…As well, in many countries, several studies have demonstrated that ants can be key generalist predators of crop pests (El-Keroumi et al, 2010;Fernandes et al, 2010 andSanders &Van Veem, 2011). Wu et al, (2013) and Chandish and Verghese (2015), demonstrated that formicid species are important predators of Lepidoptera eggs and larvae. Also, Diame et al, (2018) reported that ants play a major role in regulating crop-damaging insects.…”

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Survey, Population Density and Food Preference of Predatory Formicid Species on Scrobipalpa ocellatella Boyd. Life Cycle Stages under Egyptian Sugar Beet Fields

Mashaal

Hegazy

2023

Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology

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The current study was carried out at the Experimental Farm of Sakha Agricultural Research Station during three cultivations in 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons. The present study includes a survey of the predatory formicid species associated with the beet moth, Scrobipalpa ocellatella Boyd. larvae in sugar beet fields. The obtained results showed larvae numbers of S. ocellatella increased towards the end of the season and formicid populations were synchronous with that of S. ocellatella in the three cultivations. The simple correlation coefficient values between S. ocellatella larvae population and the predatory formicid populations were very highly positive significant in the two seasons. Five predatory formicid species were recorded belonging to the family Formicidae under the order Hymenoptera, three of them were: Tetramorium depressiceps Menozzi, Tetramorium brevicoryne Brondroit and Camponotus thoracicus (Fah.) recorded by high percentages. While the other two formicid species: Tapinoma simrothi Krausse and Solenopsis latro L. recorded low percentages. As for predation and food preference, the predatory formicid species prefer S. ocellatella larvae to eggs and pupae throughout the three sugar beet cultivations during the two seasons of study. These results proved that formicid species are important predators to S. ocellatella larvae. There for the current investigation aimed to add some contributions to the knowledge of the predatory formicid species as natural biological control agents in Egyptian sugar beet fields.

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Role of Parasitoids and Predators in the Management of Insect Pests

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Chemical Pesticides and Their Impact on Agriculture and Health-A Review

Chemical Pesticides and Their Impact on Agriculture and Health-A Review

The Viromes of Six Ecosystem Service Provider Parasitoid Wasps

Survey, Population Density and Food Preference of Predatory Formicid Species on Scrobipalpa ocellatella Boyd. Life Cycle Stages under Egyptian Sugar Beet Fields

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