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Acrosternum hilare; Chlorochroa sayi; DNA barcoding; Thyanta pallidovirens; biological control; coasts; crops; cryptic species; cytochrome-c oxidase; genes; genetic variation; haplotypes; insect control; insects; mitochondrial DNA; pests; pheromones; phylogeny; pistachios; species identification; vegetation; Central Valley of California
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... Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) are an economically important group of insects that attack numerous crops in the central valley of California. Management of these pests using pheromones or biological control can be species specific, and proper identification of insect species is essential for effective management.The objective was to examine genetic variability in four species of stink bugs, ...
... Panicle and shoot blight of pistachio caused by species of Botryosphaeriaceae fungi remains one of the major diseases of pistachio in California, with the highest potential for crop destruction because buds and fruit clusters (panicles) are killed. Pistachio fruit can also be damaged by various insect pests. For instance, hemipteran insects are considered major pests of pistachio and can attack ma ...
... Phytophagous stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) are primary pests in most fruit, vegetable, grain, and row crops worldwide. Pheromones have been identified and synthesized for several species of economically important stink bug pests. When yellow pyramid traps are baited with lures containing these pheromones, significantly more stink bug adults are captured in the field than without lures. Our ...
... This research was conducted to develop a composite diet and compare its effects on developmental time, fecundity, survival rate, and life table parameters of pistachio green stink bug, Brachynema germari Kolenati (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) with a natural diet. The biological parameters of this pest were investigated using two-sex, age-stage life table theory on both composite and natural diets (25 ...
... Fifth instars of the pistachio green stink bug, Brachynema germari, were subjected to different concentrations of a juvenoid, pyriproxyfen, and its biological effects were assessed. The treated fifth instars showed different abnormalities when metamorphosed to the adults. Morphological effects were classified as died nymph 5, nymph 6 (additional instar), nymphoid, adultoid and abnormal adult. Effe ...
... Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) are polyphagous pests that disperse from woodland habitats into crops following food availability. Black cherry (Prunus serotina Ehrh.; Rosaceae) is common in the southeast US. In this 3-yr study, our principal objective was to determine if black cherry acts as a reproductive host as well as a source of food for stink bugs in woodland habitats adjacent to crops ...
... Almond and pistachio acreage in California has increased substantially from 2000 to 2014. Almond acreage has increased over 72% to 350,000 ha while pistachio acreage increased over 195% to 89,000 ha. At the same time, insecticide/miticide usage has increased over 300% to 4.7 applications per bearing ha in almonds and over 350% to 7.0 applications per bearing ha in pistachios. The key insect pest o ...
... Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) are polyphagous pests that cause significant annual economic losses to a variety of crops. Although many species have been documented to aggregate within agricultural fields, much less is known regarding distribution patterns of adults and nymphs within and between surrounding non-crop habitat. We explored the spatiotemporal distribution of Euschistus servus (S ...
Daniela T. Pezzini; Christina D. DiFonzo; Deborah L. Finke; Thomas E. Hunt; Janet J. Knodel; Christian H. Krupke; Brian McCornack; Andrew P. Michel; Christopher R. Philips; Adam J. Varenhorst; Robert J. Wright; Robert L. Koch
Acrosternum hilare; Euschistus variolarius; Fabaceae; Halyomorpha halys; community structure; entomology; herbivores; phenology; soybeans; species richness; surveys
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... Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) are an increasing threat to soybean (Fabales: Fabaceae) production in the North Central Region of the United States, which accounts for 80% of the country's total soybean production. Characterization of the stink bug community is essential for development of management programs for these pests. However, the composition of the stink bug community in the region i ...
... We performed the first comprehensive peptidomic analysis of neurohormones from hemipteran insects by analyzing the neuropeptides of two major neurohemal organs, namely the corpora cardiaca and abdominal perisympathetic organs. For the experiments we selected four related species of polyphagous stinkbugs (Pentatomidae), three of which are known to attack several important food crops. Peptide sequen ...
... California currently produces about a quarter of the world’s pistachios. Pistachio nuts are susceptible to feeding by stink bugs and leaffooted bugs; therefore, the invasive presence of the highly polyphagous brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is a concern to California pistachio growers. We aimed to assess the potential of H. halys to cause yield loss ...
... Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), including Euschistus spp., Chinavia hilaris (Say), and Nezara viridula (L.), are economic pests in most fruit, grain, vegetable, and row crops in the United States. An insect-collecting device made from a 2.8-L clear plastic PET® jar loaded with a pheromone lure attractive to Euschistus spp. and seated atop a 1.22-m-tall yellow pyramid base has been used to ef ...
... The species composition and abundance of stink bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in corn, Zea mays L., was determined in this on-farm study in Georgia. Seven species of phytophagous stink bugs were found on corn with the predominant species being Nezara viridula (L.) and Euschistus servus (Say). All developmental stages of these two pests were found, indicating they were developing on the corn crop ...
... Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is a high‐value cash crop that is injured by various hemipteran insects, including lygus bugs (mirids) and stink bugs (pentatomids). Stink bugs can transmit pathogens that cause seed and boll rot of cotton, and lygus bugs can also transmit pathogens. However, the temporal susceptibility to breaching of the boll wall by stink bugs and related species was unknown. Our ...
... Phytophagous stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), including green stink bug [Acrosternum hilare (Say)], southern green stink bug [Nezara viridula (L.)], and brown stink bug [Euschistus servus (Say)], have become a serious production issue for southeastern U.S. cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., growers. To investigate how different agronomic crops may affect stink bug damage and fiber quality in neig ...
... Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) are primary pests in most fruit, vegetable, grain, and row crops worldwide. The polyphagous habits of these pest species compels them to forage within and between closely associated non-crop and crop habitats across farmscapes in response to changing food resources. The exotic mimosa tree, Albizia julibrissin Durazz (Fabaceae), commonly grows in thickets along ...
... Psix saccharicola (Mani) (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) is a solitary egg parasitoid of the pistachio green stink bug, Acrosternum arabicum (Wagner) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), which is one of the most important pests of pistachio in Iran. Augmentation of P. saccharicola field populations using mass-reared individuals may provide an alternative to conventional pesticide use for pistachio green stink ...
... Field cage studies were done to determine the separate and combined effects of manual defoliation and feeding by the green stink bug, Acrosternum hilare (Say), on soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merrill, yield and seed quality. Defoliation was done by hand to simulate the temporal feeding pattern of the green cloverworm, Plathypena scabra (F.). Only the main stem was defoliated, although growth from bra ...
Acrosternum hilare; Fabaceae; Nezara viridula; Steinernema; cadaver; entomopathogenic nematodes; insects; mortality; mung beans; pigeon peas; virulence; India
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... The efficacy of three entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN), viz., Steinernema masoodi, S. seemae and Steinernema sp. (strain IIPR 03) were tested against green bug, Nezara viridula and their in vivo mass production have been carried out during July, 2007 at IIPR, Kanpur. Individual N. viridula adult buds were infected with 500 infective juveniles (IJs) of S. masoodi, S. seemae, and Steinernema sp. (st ...
... Brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say), and green stink bug, Acrosternum hilare (Say) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), are major agricultural pests. Although various insecticides are used to control nymphs and adults, little is known about how they affect eggs. Laboratory bioassays and field trials were conducted to determine the efficacy of common field rates of acephate, λ-cyhalothrin, spinosad, and ...
... Egg parasitoids of the pistachio stink bug, Brachynema germari (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) were collected in pistachio orchards in Kerman province, Iran using rearing and egg-trap methods. The rearing of egg parasitoids confirmed the presence of two families, Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) and Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). In total, seven species representing two genera of the ...
... The leaffooted bug (Leptoglossus spp.) and phytophagous stink bug species (Euschistus spp., Nezara viridula, Chinavia hilare) are the major hemipteran pests of fruit, vegetable, and grain crops in Alabama and other parts of the southeastern U.S.A. The present study evaluated six winter host crops (hairy vetch, oats, rye, triticale, wheat and winter peas) and six summer host crops (buckwheat, brown ...
... Ear-colonizing insects and diseases that reduce yield and impose health threats by mycotoxin contaminations in the grain, are critical impediments for corn (Zea mays L.) production in the southern United States. Ten germplasm lines from the Germplasm Enhancement of Maize (GEM) Program in Ames, IA, and Raleigh, NC, and 10 lines (derived from GEM germplasm) from the Texas Agricultural Experiment Sta ...
... The CAP₂b neuropeptide family plays an important role in the regulation of the processes of diuresis and/or antidiuresis in a variety of insects. While Manse-CAP₂b (pELYAFPRV-NH₂) and native CAP₂bs elicit diuretic activity in a number of species of flies, native CAP₂b sequences have been shown to elicit antidiuretic activity in the kissing bug Rhodnius prolixus and the green stink bug Acrosternum ...
... Stink bugs [Acrosternum hilare (Say), Nezara viridula (L.), and Euschistus servus (Say)] have become an important pest of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) concurrent with the expansion of acres planted to transgenic cotton cultivars. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of stink bug damage on the textile mill performance of cotton cultivars that represented all combinations of tra ...
... Feeding frequency and feeding duration were examined for the different instars of the green stink bug, Acrosternum hilare (Say), on soybean seeds. The fist-instar nymph did not feed. The total number of times fed per stadium increased as the stink bug developed from the second through the fifth stadium. About half of the total nymphal feeding episodes occurred during the fifth stadium. Moreover, t ...
... Previous research showed that the most precise estimates of stink bug damage in developing cotton bolls are obtained by collecting soft quarter-sized bolls and dissecting them for signs of internal feeding damage, such as internal boll wall warts and/or stained lint. However, this method requires considerable time and effort; therefore, scouts and growers are unwilling to invest adequate resources ...
... Host plants of phytophagous insects are not equally attractive. The aim of this study was to evaluate the host-plant behavior of Sinopla perpunctatus Signoret (Hemiptera: Acanthosomatidae) and determine which parameters influence the insect's motivation. Sinopla perpunctatus is a green stink bug present in the Andean-Patagonian forest associated with various host species of Nothofagus (Fagales: No ...
... The pistachio green stink bug, Brachynema germari Kolenati, is an abundant and economic insect pest in most pistachio-growing regions. Some physiological and ecological features of this pest have been studied, but the microbiological nature of symbiotic bacteria and biological aspects of this host–symbiont interaction have been poorly understood. In the present study, we explored the host-associat ...
... Impacts of climate change on organisms are already apparent, with effects ranging from the individual to ecosystem scales. For organisms engaged in mutualisms, climate may affect population performance directly or indirectly through mediated effects on their mutualists. We tested this hypothesis for two stink bugs, Acrosternum hilare and Murgantia histrionica, and their gut-associated symbionts. W ...
planting date; Nezara viridula; Glycine max; soybeans; plant-insect relations; Acrosternum hilare; population density; maturity groups; population dynamics; Euschistus servus; Mississippi
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... Field experiments were conducted in Stoneville, MS, to determine the impact of soybean planting date and maturity group on stink bug (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) populations. Maturity group IV and V soybeans were planted on three planting dates in 2003 and 2004. Planting dates were late March-early April, late April-early May, and late May-early June. Plots were sampled weekly with a standard 38.1- ...
Acrosternum hilare; Bactrocera tryoni; Frankliniella occidentalis; Helicoverpa; Nezara viridula; Plautia affinis; Polyphagotarsonemus latus; Tetranychus urticae; adverse effects; agrochemicals; beneficial insects; biological control agents; control methods; cottonseed; crops; economic impact; flowers; insect larvae; integrated pest management; mites; new products; pest control; pesticide application; pests; raspberries; subtropics; vegetables; New South Wales
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... The raspberry crop in Australia is affected by different pests during its growth cycle. The main pests with an economic impact are: Queensland fruit fly (Bactrocera tryoni), two spotted mite (Tetranychus urticae), broadmite (Polyphagotarsonemus latus), grubs (Helicoverpa spp., loopers, cluster caterpillars, etc.), western flower thrip (Frankliniella occidentalis), green stink bug (Plautia affinis) ...
... The essential oils from leaves of Schinus molle var. areira, Aloysia citriodora, Origanum vulgare and Thymus vulgaris have showed potential as phytoinsecticides against the green stink bug, Nezara viridula. In this work were evaluated their toxicological and behavioral effects on the parasitoid Trissolcus basalis, a biological control agent of this pest insect. Essential oils were obtained via hyd ...
Acrosternum hilare; Nezara viridula; cowpeas; decision making; integrated pest management; population density; soybeans
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... Studies on the levels of damage caused by insects are important for decision-making in pest control in crops and the implementation of integrated pest management practices. In crops such as the soybean and the common bean, these levels have already been studied and defined, and pest management already established. However, in the cowpea, which has many similar pests to the soybean and the common b ...
Acrosternum hilare; eggs; fecundity; females; heat sums; life history; monitoring; nonlinear models; overwintering; pest control; pistachios; temperature; California
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... Life history parameters were established under controlled laboratory conditions for the green stink bug, Chinavia hilaris (Say) (= Acrosternum hilare), to improve pest control in pistachios in California. Parameters measured and calculated included survival and development at seven constant temperatures (ranging from 15 to 35°C), development time, upper and lower development thresholds, thermal co ...
... Temporal and sequential aspects of the courtship of the green stink bug, Nezara viridula are reported. The sequence of courtship behaviour can be divided into two phases: long-range mate location and short-range courtship. Long-range behaviour includes those components of the behaviour that lead to the arrival of females in the vicinity of males. Short-range behaviour includes those components tha ...
Acrosternum hilare; sex pheromones; insect attractants; aggregation pheromones; chemical composition; synthesis; volatile compounds; bioassays
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... Sexually mature virgin adult males of the green stink bug, Acrosternum hilare attracted sexually mature virgin adult females in laboratory bioassays using a vertical Y-tube. There was no indication that males attracted other males, or that females attracted either sex. These results suggested that A. hilare males produce a sex pheromone. Extracts of odors collected from sexually mature males conta ...
... Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Pentatomidae), called the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), is a newly invasive species in the eastern USA that is rapidly spreading from the original point of establishment in Allentown, PA. In its native range, the BMSB is reportedly attracted to methyl (E,E,Z)-2,4,6-decatrienoate, the male-produced pheromone of another pentatomid common in eastern Asia, Plautia stali ...
... Plant sucking heteropteran bugs feed regularly on small amounts of K+-rich plant material, in contrast to their hematophagous relatives which imbibe large volumes of Na+-rich blood. It was anticipated that this would be reflected in the endocrine control of Malpighian tubule (MT) secretion. To explore this, neuroendocrine factors known to influence MT secretion were tested on MT of the pentatomid ...
Ann E. Hajek; Leellen F. Solter; Joseph V. Maddox; Wei‐Fone Huang; Alden S. Estep; Grzegorz Krawczyk; Donald C. Weber; Kim A. Hoelmer; Neil D. Sanscrainte; James J. Becnel
... We describe a unique microsporidian species that infects the green stink bug, Chinavia hilaris; the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys; the brown stink bug, Euschistus servus; and the dusky stink bug, Euschistus tristigmus. All life stages are unikaryotic, but analysis of the consensus small subunit region of the ribosomal gene places this microsporidium in the genus Nosema, which histo ...
Arthur V. Ribeiro; Rafael Carlesso Aita; Daniela T. Pezzini; Christina D. DiFonzo; Thomas E. Hunt; Janet J. Knodel; Christian H. Krupke; Lia Marchi-Werle; Andrew P. Michel; Nicholas J. Seiter; Robert J. Wright; William D. Hutchison; Robert L. Koch
... Cost-effective and reliable sampling procedures are crucial for integrated pest management. Sweep net sampling is commonly used for stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in soybean, with sample size being the number of sets of sweeps, and sample unit size the number of sweeps in each set. Sample unit size has received little attention, but can affect sampling parameters. Here, two sample unit sizes ...
Pests are one of the main obstacles in improving mungbean production in Indonesia. Currently, conventional control by using synthetic pesticides is less successful because the population and damage due to the organism are still high. This study aims to evaluate the mungbean pest control technology by using biopesticide. The experiment was conducted using randomized block design, five treatments ...
... Detecting infestations of stink bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) using pheromones remains problematic, particularly so in the United States for the exotic stink bug, Nezara viridula L., and our native stink bug, Acrosternum hilare (Say). Therefore, we conducted a 2-yr on-farm study to examine the attractiveness and possible cross-attraction of the reported pheromones for N. viridula and A. hilare ...
... It is confirmed from a literature review and new research that different pheromone strains exist in Nezara viridula from different geographical regions and that males from the sister genus Acrosternum emit bouquets of distinctive ratios of the same sesquiterpenes as in N. viridula. Many tachinid parasitoids use heteropteran pheromones as kairomones, and it is suggested that the chemical similarity ...
... Sampling methods for detecting stink bugs are intensive, time-consuming, and yield variable results. In a 2-yr mark-release-observe experiment, over 500 adult green stink bugs, Chinavia hilaris (Say) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), were used to test for variation in nocturnal and diurnal insect distribution patterns on cotton. Field-collected stink bugs were marked or unmarked with nontoxic fluorescent ...
... Whole-plant cage field experiments were conducted in 2014, 2015, and 2016 to characterize cotton injury from a species complex of boll-feeding sucking bugs represented by the verde plant bug, Creontiades signatus (Distant) (Hemiptera: Miridae), brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say), green stink bug, Acrosternum hilare (Say), and redbanded stink bug, Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) (Hemiptera: P ...
simulation models; insect pests; insect behavior; overwintering; light traps; air temperature; data collection; plant pests; model validation; Acrosternum hilare; seasonal variation; imagos; insect development; insect flight; heat sums; cold; prediction; Virginia
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... A regression model was developed to predict the flight activity of Acrosternum hilare (Say) using data on the number of adults collected in a single black light trap located in Painter, VA, in the 18-yr period from 1990 to 2007. Eighteen initial weather variables, including cumulative precipitation over different time periods, mean monthly precipitation (PJA) and days below freezing (DFJA) from Ja ...
... Producers in the southeastern USA face significant crop losses from the stink bugs Nezara viridula (L.), Euschistus servus (Say), and Chinavia hilaris (Say) (all Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Cotton, peanut, and soybean are major agronomic crops and host plants of stink bugs in the region. We conducted a field plot study to measure the relative longevity of adult, unmated N. viridula males and females ...