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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 ...