ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Influences of botanical pesticides and biological agents on Orius laevigatus - Frankliniella occidentalis dynamics under greenhouse conditions
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Dipartimento OASI, Laboratorio di Entomologia ed Ecologia Applicata
Università degli studi “Mediterranea”, Salita Melissari, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Corresponding author
Carmelo Peter Bonsignore
Dipartimento OASI, Laboratorio di Entomologia ed Ecologia Applicata Università degli studi “Mediterranea”, Salita Melissari, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Dipartimento OASI, Laboratorio di Entomologia ed Ecologia Applicata Università degli studi “Mediterranea”, Salita Melissari, 89100 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Journal of Plant Protection Research 2012;52(1):15-23
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
We assessed the influence of nine biopesticides on adults and larvae of western flower thrips (WFT),
Frankliniella occidentalis
(Pergande) and its predator, the anthocorid
Orius laevigatus
(Fieber) under Mediterranean greenhouse conditions. Trials were carried
out in a strawberry crop where both species had naturally established. Foliar sprays were applied weekly for one month. Treatments
did not provide sufficient control of larval
and adult
F. occidentalis
. The negative effects on the dynamics of the predator were evident
only with the use of some specific products. The botanical insecticides rotenone and neem, and the nematode
Steinernema feltiae
(Filipjev) reduced
O. laevigatus
numbers, and these effect are evident in the adult stage of
O. laevigatus
. Such products have determined
a reduction of the population of the predator from the first treatments even if the incidence was not very high. We conclude that the
use of some botanical pesticides and nematodes against WFT is uneconomical and possibly disadvantageous where there is an established predator-prey population.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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