Journal
ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA
Volume 142, Issue 2, Pages 97-103Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2011.01203.x
Keywords
Western flower thrips; antifungal; conidial persistence; conidial acquisition; Thysanoptera; Thripidae; methyl-isonicotinate; Lurem; Clavicipitaceae; Fabaceae
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- German Academic Exchange Services through ICIPE
- BMZ Thrips IPM
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The performance of an autoinoculation device was evaluated in field cage experiments for control of Western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), in French bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. Samantha (Fabaceae). Treatments consisted of a fungus-treated device with and without semiochemical (Lurem-TR), and a fungus-free device as control; the fungus used was Metarhizium anisopliae (Metchnikoff) Sorokin (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae). The overall mean number of conidia acquired by a single insect was higher in the fungus-treated semiochemical-baited device than in the device without semiochemical: 5.0 +/- 0.6 x 104 vs. 2.2 +/- 0.4 x 104 conidia per insect. The overall thrips mortality was also higher in the semiochemical-baited device than in the device without the semiochemical: 59.3 +/- 3.9 vs. 41.7 +/- 3.5%. Conidial viability was not affected in the M. anisopliae-treated device without semiochemicals, 7 days after treatment, whereas it was considerably decreased from 81.0 +/- 1.3 to 6.5 +/- 1.1%, 2 and 7 days post-inoculation in the M. anisopliae-treated semiochemical-baited device. Thrips mortality was positively correlated with M. anisopliae conidial viability, and conidial viability was negatively correlated with conidial acquisition. This suggests that the semiochemical volatiles reduced the conidial viability, which in turn resulted in significant reduction in thrips mortality, despite the highest conidial acquisition in the semiochemical-baited fungus-treated device. Thrips density per plant was significantly reduced in both fungus-treated treatments (with semiochemical: 8.7 +/- 1.7 adults per plant; without semiochemical: 6.6 +/- 1.4 adults per plant) compared with the fungus-free control (19.8 +/- 2.6 adults per plant). These results demonstrate the potential for an autoinoculation device strategy for the control of thrips, particularly in screenhouses.
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