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Guava Pests and Beneficial Insects

EDIS, 2017
This document provides an overview of the major pests affecting guava crops in Florida, including guava whitefly, red-banded thrips, guava fruit moth, Caribbean fruit fly, mealybugs, and various scales. It details their life cycles, damage symptoms, and
Daniel Carrillo , Jorge Pena , Rita Duncan   +2 more
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Mango Pests and Beneficial Insects

EDIS, 2017
This document provides an overview of the major pests affecting mango crops in Florida, including thrips, mirids, mealybugs, scales, mites, whiteflies, blackflies, beetles, and red-banded thrips.
Daniel Carrillo, Rita Duncan, Jorge Peña   +2 more
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Exploration for Asian longhorned beetle parasitoids in Korea using an improved sentinel log trap

Parasite, 2023
The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), is a destructive invasive woodboring insect pest, and efforts are being made to find parasitoids for ALB biological control.
Lee Seunghyun, Park Duk-Young, Wang Xingeng, Duan Jian J., Gould Juli R., Kim Il-Kwon, Lee Seunghwan   +6 more
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Life History and Host Preference of Trichopria drosophilae from Southern China, One of the Effective Pupal Parasitoids on the Drosophila Species

Insects, 2020
This study aims to evaluate several life-history traits of a T. drosophilae population from southern China and its parasitic preference of three Drosophila species. For mated T.
Chuandong Yi, Pumo Cai, Jia Lin, Xuxiang Liu, Guofu Ao, Qiwen Zhang, Huimin Xia, Jianquan Yang, Qinge Ji   +8 more
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Parasitoid-induced changes in metabolic rate and feeding activity of the emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): implications for biological control

Scientific Reports, 2023
Parasitoid-host interactions form the foundation of biological control strategies against many agriculture and forest insect pests. The emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), is a serious invasive pest of ash (Fraxinus ...
Ying-Qiao Dang, Jian J. Duan, Andrew Y. Li   +2 more
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Quantification and Impact of Cold Storage and Heat Exposure on Mass Rearing Program of Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera:Tephritidae) Genetic Sexing Strain

Insects, 2020
Cold storage and heat exposure are crucial components of tephritid fruit fly mass-rearing programs, as they influence the development and fitness traits of produced flies.
Jia Lin, Hanano Yamada, Ningfeng Lu, Guofu Ao, Weiwei Yuan, Xuxiang Liu, Pumo Cai, Minlin Zheng, Jianquan Yang, Qing’e Ji   +9 more
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Molecular phylogeny of Trissolcus wasps (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) associated with Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) [PDF]

Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2019
As the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) has spread across the Northern Hemisphere, research on its egg parasitoids has increased accordingly.
Elijah J. Talamas, Marie-Claude Bon, Kim A. Hoelmer, Matthew L. Buffington   +3 more
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Grass-like mantid, American grass mantid, Thesprotia graminis, (Scudder, 1878) (Insecta: Mantodea: Thespidae)

EDIS, 2019
Praying mantids are charismatic insects that are considered beneficial to humans because of their insectivorous lifestyle and because of their aesthetic appeal. Despite this, many praying mantid species remain understudied.
Bethany McGregor, Nathan Burkett-Cadena, Andrea Lucky   +2 more
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Characteristics of the meconia of European egg parasitoids of Halyomorpha halys [PDF]

Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2020
Halyomorpha halys is a severe invasive Asian pest worldwide and classical biological control is foreseen as the most promising control method. Egg parasitoids appear to be the most important natural enemies of this pest, especially the Asian hymenopteran
Giuseppino Sabbatini-Peverieri, Lucrezia Giovannini, Claudia Benvenuti, Luca Madonni, Kim Hoelmer, Pio Federico Roversi   +5 more
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Hybridization Potential of Two Invasive Asian Longhorn Beetles

Insects, 2021
The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky) and citrus longhorned beetle (CLB), Anoplophora chinensis (Förster) (both Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), are high-risk invasive pests that attack various healthy hardwood ...
Xingeng Wang, Melody A. Keena
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