AERIAL DISPERSAL AND FIELD EFFICACY OF A GENETICALLY IMPROVED STRAIN OF THE SPIDER MITE PREDATOR METASEIULUS OCCIDENTALS
AERIAL DISPERSAL AND FIELD EFFICACY OF A GENETICALLY IMPROVED STRAIN OF THE SPIDER MITE PREDATOR METASEIULUS OCCIDENTALS
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蜘蛛螨捕食者 METASEIULUS OCCIDENTALS 基因改良品系的空中传播和田间效力
DOI:
10.1111/j.1570-7458.1982.tb03207.x
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发表时间:
1982
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M. Hoy
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作者:
M. Hoy
In August 1979, a strain of Metaseiulus occidentalis resistant to carbaryl and organophosphorus (OP) insecticides was released into a few trees at one edge of a 32‐hectare commercial almond orchard near Bakersfield, California. In August 1980, predators collected from 7 widely separated sites in the orchard had moderate to high levels of carbaryl resistance, indicating the resistant strain had established, multiplied, overwintered, and dispersed from the release site. During 1980, the resistant predators had a substantial impact on spider mite populations. Aerial dispersal of M. occidentalis was suspected in this orchard because the predators had moved so far so quickly. Predators sampled in April and September 1981 were still carbaryl resistant, indicating that this strain had survived a 2nd year in this commercial almond orchard. The carbaryl‐OP‐resistant strain also was released into every 3rd tree in every 3rd row in a commercial almond orchard near Livingston, California in June 1981 and inter‐tree dispersal occurred within one month. The predators exerted considerable control over the spider mites in this orchard, as well. Aerial dispersal occurred and was monitored by trapping large numbers of M. occidentalis females on sticky panels located outside the orchard. This is the first documentation that M. occidentalis disperses aerially in the field, and suggests that this carbaryl‐OP‐resistant strain may be capable of substantial dispersal from release orchards. It is also the first time that this laboratory‐selected strain has been shown to be effective in large commercial almond orchards, as previous trials used only 10–30 tree plots.