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21 January 2018 Improved Sweetpotato Whitefly and Potato Psyllid Control in Tomato by Combining the Mirid Dicyphus hesperus (Heteroptera: Miridae) With Specialist Parasitic Wasps
F. J. Calvo, A. Torres-Ruiz, J. Velázquez-González, E. Rodríguez-Leyva, J. R. Lomeli-Flores
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Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and Bactericera cockerelli Sulcer (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) are important pests in tomato, and the mirid Dicyphus hesperus Knight (Heteroptera: Miridae) has been shown as an effective predator of both pests. Although the predator was able to suppress populations of both pests, the remaining levels could still exceed tolerable levels. Thus, we here hypothesized whether the combination of D. hesperus with the specialist parasitoids Eretmocerus eremicus Rose y Zolnerowich (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) (whitefly) and Tamarixia triozae (Burks) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) (psyllid) would result in better pest control on a greenhouse scale. For that, we conducted a trial in which we compared the results against B. tabaci and B. cockerelli in greenhouses treated with D. hesperus alone or the predator in combination with the specialist parasitoids. The results showed that the predator was able to establish and suppress B. tabaci and B. cockerelli in tomato, but the addition of the specialist parasitoids resulted in better and more cost-effective pest control. Implementation of this method would therefore increase the robustness and reliability of biocontrol-based integrated pest management programmes for tomato crops, over methods based exclusively on D. hesperus release.

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F. J. Calvo, A. Torres-Ruiz, J. Velázquez-González, E. Rodríguez-Leyva, and J. R. Lomeli-Flores "Improved Sweetpotato Whitefly and Potato Psyllid Control in Tomato by Combining the Mirid Dicyphus hesperus (Heteroptera: Miridae) With Specialist Parasitic Wasps," Journal of Economic Entomology 111(2), 549-555, (21 January 2018). https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/tox362
Received: 6 March 2017; Accepted: 7 December 2017; Published: 21 January 2018
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KEYWORDS
Bactericera cockerelli
Bemisia tabaci
biological control
Eretmocerus eremicus
Tamarixia triozae
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