The pest kill rate of thirteen natural enemies as aggregate evaluation criterion of their biological control potential of Tuta absoluta

Autor: Vanda H. P. Bueno, F. C. Montes, Francisco J. Calvo, Lia Hemerik, Pascal Osa Aigbedion-Atalor, Norma Elba Sánchez, Antonio Biondi, Peter W. de Jong, Alberto Lanzoni, María B. Riquelme Virgala, Eliana Lorena Nieves, Joop C. van Lenteren, Giovanni Burgio, Johanna Gisela Bajonero Cuervo, M. Gabriela Luna, Silvia N. López, Alberto Urbaneja
Přispěvatelé: van Lenteren J.C., Lanzoni A., Hemerik L., Bueno V.H.P., Bajonero Cuervo J.G., Biondi A., Burgio G., Calvo F.J., de Jong P.W., Lopez S.N., Luna M.G., Montes F.C., Nieves E.L., Aigbedion-Atalor P.O., Riquelme Virgala M.B., Sanchez N.E., Urbaneja A.
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
0106 biological sciences
H10 Pests of plants
Behavioural ecology
Biología
Drug Evaluation
Preclinical

Biological pest control
Moth
Moths
Biological Control
TRAÇAS
Wiskundige en Statistische Methoden - Biometris
01 natural sciences
Population density
Predation
Toxicology
Control Biológico
Solanum lycopersicum
Control de Plagas
Laboratory of Entomology
Natural Enemies
Organism
Introduced Specie
education.field_of_study
Multidisciplinary
food and beverages
PE&RC
Tuta absoluta
Enemigos Naturales
Biological Control Agents
Plagas de Plantas
Medicine
Female
Crops
Agricultural

Population dynamics
Biological Control Agent
Science
Population
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
Article
Crop
Species Specificity
Animals
Life Science
Ciencias Agrarias
Lycopersicon esculentum
Pest Control
Biological

education
Mathematical and Statistical Methods - Biometris
Population Density
Animal
fungi
Laboratorium voor Entomologie
biology.organism_classification
010602 entomology
Pest Control
PEST analysis
Introduced Species
Zdroj: Scientific Reports, 11(1)
Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021)
electronico
Scientific Reports 11 (2021) 1
ReDivia. Repositorio Digital del Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias
instname
Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
instacron:USP
Scientific Reports 11 : 10756 (2021)
INTA Digital (INTA)
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria
instacron:INTA
Scientific Reports
ReDivia: Repositorio Digital del Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA)
SEDICI (UNLP)
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
instacron:UNLP
ISSN: 2045-2322
Popis: Ecologists study how populations are regulated, while scientists studying biological pest control apply population regulation processes to reduce numbers of harmful organisms: an organism (a natural enemy) is used to reduce the population density of another organism (a pest). Finding an effective biological control agent among the tens to hundreds of natural enemies of a pest is a daunting task. Evaluation criteria help in a first selection to remove clearly ineffective or risky species from the list of candidates. Next, we propose to use an aggregate evaluation criterion, the pest kill rate, to compare the pest population reduction capacity of species not eliminated during the first selection. The pest kill rate is the average daily lifetime killing of the pest by the natural enemy under consideration. Pest kill rates of six species of predators and seven species of parasitoids of Tuta absoluta were calculated and compared. Several natural enemies had pest kill rates that were too low to be able to theoretically reduce the pest population below crop damaging densities. Other species showed a high pest reduction capacity and their potential for practical application can now be tested under commercial crop production conditions.
Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores
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