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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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; 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 ...
... Adult brown, Euschistus servus (Say); green, Acrosternum hilare (Say); and southern green, Nezara viridula (L.), stink bugs were collected from soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr., in fall 2001 and 2002 near Stoneville, MS, and Eudora, AR. A glass-vial bioassay was used to determine LC50 values for the three species of stink bugs for the pyrethroids bifenthrin, cypermethrin, cyfluthrin, lambda-cyhalot ...
... 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 ...
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- ...
Euschistus servus; Euschistus tristigmus; Acrosternum hilare; pest monitoring; trapping; insect traps; baits; aggregation pheromones; equipment design; equipment performance; insecticides; ear tags; Malus domestica; Prunus persica; West Virginia
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... Capture of stink bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in apple orchards with yellow pyramid traps baited with Euschistus spp. (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) aggregation pheromone, methyl (2E,4Z)-decadienoate, was 4 fold greater when traps were topped with a 3.8-L jar with a 1.6 cm diameter opening and trimmed wire edging than with a 1.9-L jar with a 5 cm diameter opening with no wire edging. Stink bug ca ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... The green stink bug, Acrosternum hilare (Say), and the harlequin bug, Murgantia histrionica (Hahn) (both Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), are pests of many economically important crops. Although both species have been studied extensively, until recently their relationships with symbiotic gut bacteria have remained unknown. The endosymbionts may be important, as other pentatomomorphan species harbor ver ...
trapping; developmental stages; validity; Euschistus servus; estimation; Gossypium hirsutum; plant pests; reliability; population density; Nezara viridula; sampling; insect pests; traps; population size; accuracy; cotton; measuring devices; netting; Acrosternum hilare; cost effectiveness; pest monitoring; South Carolina; Georgia
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... Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) were sampled in commercial cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., fields in 2007 and 2008 in South Carolina and Georgia. The main species collected with the beat cloth and sweep net methods were green stink bug, Acrosternum hilare (Say) (63 and 57%, respectively); brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say) (23 and 18%, respectively); and southern green stink bug, Nezara ...