I-Corps: Local Ladybugs: An Effective, Environmentally Sound Pest Management Alternative
I-Corps:当地瓢虫:一种有效、无害环境的害虫管理替代方案
基本信息
- 批准号:1557855
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 5万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:美国
- 项目类别:Standard Grant
- 财政年份:2015
- 资助国家:美国
- 起止时间:2015-09-01 至 2016-02-29
- 项目状态:已结题
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项目摘要
The proposed I-Corps project will explore the commercial feasibility of raising and selling native lady beetles (also known as ladybugs and ladybird beetles) to provide an alternative tool for gardeners and farmers to control the insect pests that eat their plants. Ladybeetles are one of the main groups of insects that can control these pests. Currently, farmers and gardeners purchase live lady beetles which have been collected from mountains in California. Over 3 billion beetles are sold annually for approximately $3 million and increasing concerns about pesticides and the rapid growth of the organic agriculture sector are expected to make biological controls increasingly attractive. There are several reasons why a new product could successfully break into the lady beetle portion of the biological control market including; 1)released convergent lady beetles fly away and do not control pests, 2)convergent lady beetles collected from one small area in California might spread disease across the country [the spread of disease is a leading theory of whyhoney bees declined], and 3)drought in California which is driving availability down and price up. Clearly this market is ripe for analternative that actually performs. The alternative lady beetles this team will supply will be more effective (as locally adapted beetleshave consistently proven to be)and they are formerly common native species that have recently become rare and are in dire need of conservation.The proposed approach will be to produce laboratory-reared native lady beetles as an alternative field-collected beetles or pesticides for the suppression of insect pests. It has been generally accepted for some time that the currently available lady beetles are ineffective and had potentially necgative environmental consequences but attempts to make alternative species available through rearing (as opposed to collecting) have failed. With the proposed rearing technique, the team expects to produce beetles that would far outperform the currently sold product in terms of pest suppression, without the potential for negative environmental impacts, and could reasonably expect to command a premium for these incremental benefits. The team currently produces 100's of beetles per week and has the capacity to potentially produce 10s of 1000s per week. The greater efficacy, availability and positive environmental impact should lead many current and new consumers to the proposeded product. Environmentally concerned farmers and gardeners have already contacted the Lost Ladybug Project (a citizen science project with thousands of participants across the country) in search of sources of alternatives to the convergent lady beetle. In addition, large land-owners with interests in lady beetle diversity and conservation have contacted the team wishing to release threatened natives on their land indicating the potential for a "green lady beetle" market in addition to the pest suppression.
拟议的I-Corps项目将探讨饲养和销售本地瓢虫(也称为瓢虫和瓢虫)的商业可行性,为园丁和农民提供一种替代工具,以控制食用植物的害虫。 瓢虫是能够控制这些害虫的主要昆虫类群之一。目前,农民和园丁购买从加州山区收集的活瓢虫。每年销售的甲虫超过30亿只,售价约为300万美元,对农药的日益关注和有机农业部门的迅速增长预计将使生物控制越来越有吸引力。有几个原因可以解释为什么一种新产品可以成功地打入生物防治市场的瓢虫部分,包括; 1)释放的收敛瓢虫飞走了,不能控制害虫,2)从加州的一个小地区收集的收敛瓢虫可能会在全国传播疾病[疾病的传播是蜜蜂为什么衰落的主要理论],3)加州的干旱导致可用性下降,价格上涨。显然,这个市场是成熟的替代品,实际执行。该团队将提供的替代瓢虫将更有效(因为当地适应的甲虫一直被证明是),它们以前是常见的本地物种,最近变得罕见,急需保护。拟议的方法将是生产实验室饲养的本地瓢虫作为替代现场收集的甲虫或杀虫剂来抑制害虫。一段时间以来,人们普遍认为目前可用的瓢虫是无效的,并有潜在的负面环境后果,但试图通过饲养(而不是收集)来提供替代物种的尝试失败了。通过拟议的饲养技术,该团队预计生产的甲虫在害虫抑制方面将远远超过目前销售的产品,而不会对环境产生负面影响,并且可以合理地期望为这些增量效益获得溢价。该团队目前每周生产100只甲虫,并有能力每周生产1000只甲虫。更高的功效,可用性和积极的环境影响应导致许多现有和新的消费者提出的产品。关心环境的农民和园丁已经联系了迷失的瓢虫项目(一个全国有数千名参与者的公民科学项目),以寻找收敛瓢虫的替代品。此外,对瓢虫多样性和保护感兴趣的大土地所有者已经联系了希望在其土地上释放受威胁的土著人的小组,这表明除了抑制虫害外,还有“绿色瓢虫”市场的潜力。
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