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1 October 2014 Spatial Distribution of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Injury at Harvest in Mid-Atlantic Apple Orchards
Shimat V. Joseph, Jonathan W. Stallings, Tracy C. Leskey, Greg Krawczyk, Dean Polk, Bryan Butler, J. Christopher Bergh
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Abstract

Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), injury to late-season apple cultivars was measured at harvest in 2011 and 2012 in commercial orchards in four mid-Atlantic states. In each orchard block, a border zone (adjacent to woods), an interior zone (near orchard center), and an intermediate zone (between border and interior zones) comprised 1–3 tree rows per zone, depending on block size. Just before commercial harvest, 10 fruit were sampled from the upper, middle, and lower third of the canopy from five trees in each zone. After 3–5 wk in cold storage, fruit were examined for external and internal injury, and severity of internal injury (number of injury sites per fruit) from H. halys. A zero-inflated negative binomial model accounted for significant variation among the orchards and showed that apples from the upper canopy of border zone trees had the highest probability of experiencing external and internal injury. A minor interaction was detected among the orchards and zones for injury prevalence and severity, but there was no evidence of an orchard showing less expected injury in the border zone compared with other zones. Adjusting for orchard-to-orchard variation, differences in injury distributions among the zones and canopies were primarily due to injury prevalence rather than expected injury severity. The implications of these results to scouting and managing H. halys in eastern apple orchards are discussed.

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Shimat V. Joseph, Jonathan W. Stallings, Tracy C. Leskey, Greg Krawczyk, Dean Polk, Bryan Butler, and J. Christopher Bergh "Spatial Distribution of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Injury at Harvest in Mid-Atlantic Apple Orchards," Journal of Economic Entomology 107(5), 1839-1848, (1 October 2014). https://doi.org/10.1603/EC14154
Received: 11 April 2014; Accepted: 1 July 2014; Published: 1 October 2014
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KEYWORDS
Halyomorpha halys
Malus domestica
sampling
scouting
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