Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1007/s10526-024-10287-w
Jailma Rodrigues Dos Santos, Tamara Akemi Takahashi, Gabriel Rodrigues Palma, Rafael de Andrade Moral, José Roberto Postali Parra
A recently discovered koinobiont parasitoid species, Aleiodes ceres Shimbori, 2023, proved to be a promising biological control agent for larvae of Spodoptera cosmioides (Walker, 1858), S. eridania (Stoll, 1782), and S. frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797), all well-known pests that cause critical damage to soybean and corn crops. This study investigated the potential of parasitism by A. ceres in these three species, including different instars (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th instar) and diets (artificial and natural). Parasitism was highest when it occurs in the second instar for all three host species. The egg-to-pupa period of A. ceres was shorter in the second and third instars in relation to the first instar. Parasitism was substantially enhanced by the use of natural diets (soybean and corn leaves) compared with the artificial diet in all three species of the Spodoptera complex, suggesting a possible allelochemical interaction. Based on the results from the three host species, the potential for control of Spodoptera spp. by A. ceres was evident.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10526-024-10287-w.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1007/s10526-025-10338-w
David J Ensing, Tyler D Nelson, Chandra E Moffat, Lauryn Joslin, Lucas Eckert, Marlene M Kraml, Christopher G Eckert
The enemy release hypothesis underpins classical (or importation) biocontrol as a management technique for invasive species. Classical biocontrol has had resounding success when prospective control agents have been subject to appropriate screening before release. Occasionally, however, natural enemies have been reunited with their hosts accidentally. Such adventive agents may provide effective control but have also avoided the careful screening characteristic of modern importation biocontrol programmes. We were studying the invasive mustard, Hesperis matronalis L. (Dame's rocket; Brassicaceae: Hesperidae), when we discovered rampant seed predation by an unknown seed predator. Using DNA barcoding, we identified this seed predator as Ceutorhynchus inaffectatus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a recently (2018) detected species in North America. Comparing potential and realised seed production, we found that seed predation by C. inaffectatus strongly reduces H. matronalis fecundity, and that this effect was not moderated by infection with turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), a commercially important pathogen hosted by H. matronalis and transmitted by polyphagous aphid species. C. inaffectatus is expected to be highly host-specific, and the absence of native Hesperidae species in North America suggests the potential for C. inaffectatus as a classical, but adventive, biocontrol agent of H. matronalis. We suggest population genetic research to identify the origin of C. inaffectatus, and host specificity testing before any intentional redistribution of this species for H. matronalis biocontrol. More generally, this system acts as a model for biocontrol prospects with adventive insect herbivore species.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10526-025-10338-w.
敌人释放假说支持传统(或进口)生物防治作为入侵物种管理技术的基础。经典的生物防治已经取得了巨大的成功,当预期的控制剂在释放前进行了适当的筛选。然而,偶尔,天敌也会意外地与它们的宿主团聚。这种外来药物可能提供有效的控制,但也避免了现代进口生物控制规划所特有的仔细筛选。我们当时正在研究入侵的芥菜,一种叫Hesperis matronalis L. (Dame’s rocket;芸苔科:橙皮科)的植物,我们发现了一种未知的种子捕食者在猖獗地捕食种子。利用DNA条形码技术,我们将这种种子捕食者鉴定为Ceutorhynchus inaffectatus Gyllenhal(鞘翅目:Curculionidae),这是最近(2018年)在北美发现的物种。通过比较潜在和实现的种子产量,我们发现C. inaffectatus对种子的捕食会大大降低萝卜花叶病毒(TuMV)的繁殖力,而这种影响不会被萝卜花叶病毒(TuMV)感染所减缓,TuMV是一种重要的商业病原体,由萝卜花叶病毒宿主,由多食蚜虫传播。C. inaffectatus预计具有高度的宿主特异性,并且在北美缺乏本地的橙皮蛾物种,这表明C. inaffectatus可能是一种经典的,但外来的生物防治剂。我们建议进行种群遗传学研究,以确定感染红僵菌的起源,并在有意重新分配该物种进行黄僵菌生物防治之前进行寄主特异性检测。更一般地说,该系统可作为外来食草昆虫生物防治前景的模型。补充信息:在线版本包含补充资料,下载地址:10.1007/s10526-025-10338-w。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1007/s10526-023-10234-1
K. Yoneya, Satsuki Nishimori, Eizi Yano, Kei Yamaguchi, Matsuri Tsumoto, R. Ozawa, J. Takabayashi, I. Kandori
{"title":"Olfactory responses of Nesidiocoris tenuis to uninfested or conspecific-infested banker plants and Thrips palmi-infested eggplants","authors":"K. Yoneya, Satsuki Nishimori, Eizi Yano, Kei Yamaguchi, Matsuri Tsumoto, R. Ozawa, J. Takabayashi, I. Kandori","doi":"10.1007/s10526-023-10234-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-023-10234-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8878,"journal":{"name":"BioControl","volume":"40 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-30DOI: 10.1007/s10526-023-10233-2
M. Aquino, E. Sujii, Sérgio Eustáquio Noronha, Miguel Borges, M. C. Blassioli‐Moraes, R. Laumann
{"title":"Influence of landscape structure on stink bug and their adult parasitoid populations on soybean culture","authors":"M. Aquino, E. Sujii, Sérgio Eustáquio Noronha, Miguel Borges, M. C. Blassioli‐Moraes, R. Laumann","doi":"10.1007/s10526-023-10233-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-023-10233-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8878,"journal":{"name":"BioControl","volume":" 2","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139140434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1007/s10526-023-10220-7
J. Srikanth, B. Singaravelu, N. Crickmore, P. Mahesh, C. Sankaranarayanan, G. S. Suresha, C. Appunu, R. Nirmala, M. Om Prakash, K. M. Athira
{"title":"Laboratory evaluation of a scarabid-specific isolate of Bacillus thuringiensis against white grub Holotrichia serrata","authors":"J. Srikanth, B. Singaravelu, N. Crickmore, P. Mahesh, C. Sankaranarayanan, G. S. Suresha, C. Appunu, R. Nirmala, M. Om Prakash, K. M. Athira","doi":"10.1007/s10526-023-10220-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-023-10220-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8878,"journal":{"name":"BioControl","volume":"35 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1007/s10526-023-10229-y
Melissa C. Smith, Paul Julian, Don DeAngelis, Bo Zhang
{"title":"Ecological benefits of integrative weed management of Melaleuca quinquenervia in Big Cypress National Preserve","authors":"Melissa C. Smith, Paul Julian, Don DeAngelis, Bo Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10526-023-10229-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-023-10229-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8878,"journal":{"name":"BioControl","volume":"38 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1007/s10526-023-10226-1
Linda C. Muskat, Britta Kais, Jürgen Gross, Jørgen Eilenberg, Anant V. Patel
{"title":"A biobased superabsorbent formulation for above-ground application of a new entomophthoralean fungus for biological psyllid pest control","authors":"Linda C. Muskat, Britta Kais, Jürgen Gross, Jørgen Eilenberg, Anant V. Patel","doi":"10.1007/s10526-023-10226-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-023-10226-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8878,"journal":{"name":"BioControl","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138586609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1007/s10526-023-10231-4
Clarke J. M. van Steenderen, GF Sutton, Liam D. Yell, K. Canavan, A. McConnachie, Michael D. Day, Iain D. Paterson
{"title":"Phylogenetic analyses reveal multiple new stem-boring Tetramesa taxa (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae): implications for the biological control of invasive African grasses","authors":"Clarke J. M. van Steenderen, GF Sutton, Liam D. Yell, K. Canavan, A. McConnachie, Michael D. Day, Iain D. Paterson","doi":"10.1007/s10526-023-10231-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-023-10231-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8878,"journal":{"name":"BioControl","volume":"22 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}