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Frankliniella occidentalis; adults; beans; bioassays; control methods; instars; jasmonic acid; larvae; leaves; methyl jasmonate; pest management; pests; plant damage; soil
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... The larval stages of Frankliniella occidentalis Pergande (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) cause more direct feeding damage to plants than the adults. We, therefore, investigated the behaviour-modifying effects on second instar larvae of two jasmonic acid derivatives. The artificial application of methyl jasmonate and cis-jasmone, both at 1 % concentration, deterred the larvae from settling in a dual choi ...
... Discrepancies in the published research as to the attraction of the economically important pest western flower thrips (WFT) to different colours confounds the optimisation of field traps for pest management purposes. We considered whether the different experimental conditions of independent studies could have contributed to this. Therefore, the behavioural response (i.e., landings) to different co ...
... Behavioural responses of Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a generalist, cell sap‐feeding insect species with piercing‐sucking mouthparts, after continuous exposure to two deterrent secondary plant compounds are investigated. We compared in choice assays on bean leaf discs, the settling, feeding, and oviposition preferences of F. occidentalis females that had no expe ...
... Western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is one of the most significant pests of commercial vegetables, fruits, and ornamental crops worldwide, causing both direct and indirect damage. Chemical control is the most common methodology for dealing with F. occidentalis, but this pest lays its eggs inside plant tissues, and adults and larvae feed in concea ...
... BACKGROUND: Orius armatus (Gross) is an important predator of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Australian glasshouse grown sweet pepper. The failure of O. armatus to establish in some glasshouses has been attributed to the use of newer, more non‐selective pesticides, some of which are regarded to be compatible with integrated pest management ...
... Frankliniella occidentalis is a highly polyphagous and virus transmitting crop pest that feeds on leaves, fruits and pollen of plants across nearly a hundred plant families and several hundreds of plant species. To evaluate the influence of different diets on egg development and oviposition rate of females of Western Flower Thrips, four different food sources (sucrose solution, pine tree po ...
... Elevated CO₂ can alter plant resistance against insect herbivores. In this study, we investigated the effect of elevated CO₂ on the callose synthesis involved in the resistance of Phaseolus vulgaris against Frankliniella occidentalis, which is one of the most important invasive insect pests worldwide. Elevated CO₂ elevated the silver damage, callose deposition, and the expression level of CalS3 an ...
... Thrips are major pests of vegetables and ornamental plants grown under protective structures, and can penetrate all but the finest insect screens; i.e. thrips exclusion screening has recommended hole-diameter < 0.2 mm. We investigated a modern long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN), with relatively larger hole size compared with thrips exclusion screening, as a barrier treatment for Western flower t ...
... Feeding and oviposition deterrence of three secondary plant compounds and their 1:1 blends to adult female Frankliniella occidentalis Pergande (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and the potential for habituation of the thrips to the pure compounds and the 1:1 blends at various concentrations were investigated. In choice assays, we tested dose‐dependent feeding and oviposition deterrence of the two fatty ac ...
Yesica P. Cubillos-Salamanca; José C. Rodríguez-Maciel; Samuel Pineda-Guillermo; Hilda V. Silva-Rojas; Jacinto Berzosa; Manuel A. Tejeda-Reyes; Ángel Rebollar-Alviter
... Mexico is among the most important blackberry producers in the world. In this crop, thrips damage is associated with poor fruit set. The objectives of this study were to identify the main thrips species associated with the flowers of cultivated blackberries, and to determine the resistance level of 13 field-collected populations of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thys ...
Frankliniella occidentalis; adults; beans; crops; cucumbers; direct contact; females; hydroxybenzaldehyde; leaves; long term effects; methyl salicylate; oviposition
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... This study investigates behavioural responses of adult western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis Pergande; Thysan., Thripidae) females to direct contact with repellent phenylpropanoid plant compounds (salicylaldehyde and methyl salicylate) applied on bean and cucumber leaves. The residence time of F. occidentalis females until take off was significantly shorter on bean or cucumber leaf dis ...
... Recently, the native species Frankliniella intonsa (Trybom) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) has been found to be regionally dominant over its invasive congener Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Korea. To understand the variation in patterns of occurrence in the field, the effect of competition on the biological attributes of the 2 thrips species was assessed in the labor ...
... Learning is a behavioural change based on memory of previous experiences and a ubiquitous phenomenon in animals. Learning effects are commonly life‐stage‐ and age‐specific. In many animals, early life experiences lead to pervasive and persistent behavioural changes. There is broad consensus that learning has far‐reaching implications to biological control. Proximate and ultimate factors of individ ...
... Timely detection of western flower thrips (WFT), Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is important to help prevent economic damage to crops. Coloured traps are commonly used for thrips monitoring and their efficacy can be markedly improved with the addition of semiochemicals such as methyl isonicotinate (MI). However, the behavioural response of thrips to these compound ...
risk; beans; life history; food plants; Frankliniella occidentalis; predatory mites; food chain; eggs; mortality; leaves; biological control
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... Recent reviews on trait-mediated interactions in food webs suggest that trait-mediated effects are as important in triggering top-down trophic cascades as are density-mediated effects. Trait-mediated interactions between predator and prey result from non-consumptive predator effects changing behavioural and/or life history traits of prey. However, in biological control the occurrence of trait-medi ...
... Orius species are important biological control agents of thrips in protected crops. Rearing conditions in mass production facilities may affect their performance in the crop when searching for the target prey. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the search behaviour and orientation towards prey of two Orius species, O. laevigatus (Fieber) and O. insidiosus (Say) that have been reared ...
... Western flower thrips (WFT), Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is a major pest of horticultural crops worldwide. The search for alternative pest management techniques has resulted in increasing interest in the use of kairomones and other behaviour‐modifying chemicals to mitigate the impact of this pest. In this study, we determined whether the origin of populations, ...
beans; rearing; Capsicum annuum; greenhouses; Bemisia argentifolii; peppers; seedlings; vegetable crops; Frankliniella occidentalis; vegetable growing; pests; predation; Scirtothrips dorsalis; integrated pest management; Amblyseius swirskii; pepper; biological control; United States
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... Silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia tabaci biotype B (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), and chilli thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), are key pests of vegetable crops in the US. The present study established ornamental peppers as banker plants supporting Amblyseius swirskii (Acari: Phytoseiidae) against the three ...
... To study the systemic effects of active neem ingredients, the substrate of bean plants was treated with a 170 g kg(-1) azadirachtin (NeemAzal-U; Trifolio-M GmbH, Lahnau, Germany, registration pending). This product was used at a dose rate of 10 mg AZA (azadirachtin a) and 1.2 mg 3-tigloyl-azadirachtol (azadirachtin b) per treated bean plant. Afterwards, the translocation and persistence of AZA and ...
Euphorbia pulcherrima; Frankliniella occidentalis; Megalurothrips sjostedti; aggregation pheromones; beans; flowers; light microscopy; males; transmission electron microscopy; ultrastructure
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... Sternal pores are important features for identification of male thrips, especially within the subfamily Thripinae. They vary in shape, size and distribution even between species of one genus. Their functional role is speculated to be that of sex- and/or aggregation pheromone production. Yet, sexual aggregations are not reported in Echinothrips americanus, known to have sternal pores, while we obse ...
... Post application persistence of two entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) species, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora strain HK3 and Steinernema carpocapsae strain DD136, was studied against soil-dwelling late second instar larvae (L2) of western flower thrips (WFT) Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). The nematodes were applied at 200 and 400 infective juveniles (IJ) cm−2, and L2 WFT were i ...