Are synthetic pheromone captures predictive of parasitoid densities as a kairomonal attracted tool?


https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2011.23
Vol. 43 No. 1 (2011)
Submitted: 2 February 2012
Accepted: 2 February 2012
Published: 30 April 2011
Thomsonisca amathus, Encarsia perniciosi, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, Diaspidiotus perniciosus, E urope.
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Authors

  • Mohamed Hassan Bayoumy
    marsamarium@yahoo.com
    Entomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt; Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, .
  • Mehmet Bora Kydan Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversity, Agriculture Faculty, Plant Protection Department, Van, Turkey.
  • Ferenc Kozár Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Abundance of White Peach scale (WPS), Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) and San José scale (SJS), Diaspidiotus perniciosus (Comstock) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) adult males and their attracted parasitoids were monitored using pheromone and sticky tape traps in an orchard of Budapest, Hungary, during 2010. In this study, we tried answer on the question raised whether synthetic commercial pheromones of WSP or SJS could work as a kairomonal stimulant and positively attract higher numbers of the specialized parasitoids. Although pheromone traps attracted a wide range of parasitoid species, most of them were accidentally. However, the parasitoid Thomsonisca amathus (Walker) (Hymenoptera: E ncyrtidae) and the parasitoid Encarsia perniciosi (Tower) (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) significantly respond to the sex pheromones of WPS and SJS, respectively, suggesting that they may play an important role in host location.

Bayoumy, M. H., Kydan, M. B., & Kozár, F. (2011). Are synthetic pheromone captures predictive of parasitoid densities as a kairomonal attracted tool?. Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 43(1), 23–31. https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2011.23

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