[HTML][HTML] Challenges of climate change and air pollution for volatile-mediated plant-parasitoid signalling

DM Pinto-Zevallos, JD Blande - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review the impact of climate change and air pollution on tritrophic
signalling.•Plant volatiles induced by abiotic stress can act as false signals to parasitoids.•Air …

Electroantennogram and machine learning reveal a volatile blend mediating avoidance behavior by Tuta absoluta females to a wild tomato plant

RN Miano, PM Ayelo, R Musau, A Hassanali… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Tomato cultivation is threatened by the infestation of the nocturnal invasive tomato pinworm,
Tuta absoluta. This study was based on field observations that a wild tomato plant, Solanum …

Foraging behaviour

MDE Fellowes, JJM van Alphen, KS Shameer… - Jervis's Insects as …, 2023 - Springer
In this chapter, we consider practical aspects of the foraging behaviour of insect natural
enemies in its widest sense (so wide that we even include a few examples concerning non …

Tritrophic interactions mediated by zoophytophagous predator-induced host plant volatiles

B Adams, AA Yusuf, B Torto, FM Khamis - Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2024 - Springer
The zoophytophagous mirid predator Nesidiocoris tenuis and the ectoparasitoid
Stenomesius japonicus are important biological control agents for several agricultural pests …

Interactions between the Entomopathogenic Fungus Metarhizium anisopliae ICIPE 20 and the Endoparasitoid Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris, and Implications for Combined …

S Mama Sambo, KS Akutse, H du Plessis… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The theory of beneficial species association in a cropping system can
sustain ecosystem services and reduce pest pression under economic injury levels. For the …

Recruitment of Hippodamia variegata by active volatiles from Glycyrrhiza uralensis and Alhagi sparsifolia plants infested with Aphis atrata

Y Jiang, C Xiu, H Pan, X Liu - Pest Management Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract BACKGROUND Hippodamia variegata (Goeze)(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), a
dominant predatory natural enemy species in cotton‐planting, is a key biological control …

Better Together: Volatile-Mediated Intraguild Effects on the Preference of Tuta absoluta and Trialeurodes vaporariorum for Tomato Plants

F Rodrigo, AP Burgueño, A González… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - Springer
Plant-herbivore interactions have been extensively studied in tomato plants and their most
common pests. Tomato plant chemical defenses, both constitutive and inducible, play a role …

Disentangling thermal effects using life cycle simulation modelling on the biology and demographic parameters of Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris, a parasitoid of Tuta …

PO Aigbedion-Atalor, MP Hill, AGA Azrag… - Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris (Marsh)(Syn. Apanteles gelechiidivoris)(
Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a konoibiont larval endoparasitoid of the South American …

Phytophagy of Nesidiocoris tenuis triggers the response of Trichogramma achaeae to tomato plants infested by Tuta absoluta

P Cascone, F Tabebordbar, G Cencetti… - Journal of Pest …, 2024 - Springer
The generalist predator Nesidiocoris tenuis, an effective biological control agent of
numerous pests of the tomato crops, can also trigger plant defence mechanisms (direct and …

[HTML][HTML] Insight into the host-specificity of a native and a newly introduced parasitoid of Tuta absoluta and prospect for biological control

J Gonthier, J Arnó, J Romeis, J Collatz - Biological Control, 2024 - Elsevier
New strategies are urgently needed to control Tuta absoluta (Meyrick)(Lepidoptera:
Gelechiidae), one of the most destructive pests of tomato crops. Originating from South …