Novel Microbial Tools and Tactics for Cutworm Control in Wine Grapes

可持续园艺研究所（ISH），在昆特伦理工大学（KPU），和AndermartCanada公司，我们将合作探索最有效和可持续的策略来管理冬季攀爬地老虎，重点是入侵的夜蛾，并确定一些相同的策略是否可以有效地对抗相关的入侵性多食地老虎，夜蛾。该项目建立在加拿大农业和农业食品（2006-13）和ISH（2018-21）与酿酒葡萄行业合作的基础上，为攀爬地老虎害虫开发生物解决方案。四类有希望的生物防治工具，包括昆虫杆状病毒、两种商业前真菌物种（球孢白僵菌和雷氏绿僵菌）、一种昆虫病原线虫，Steinernema feltiae，以及一种拟寄生蜂，赤眼蜂，将被用来制定管理策略的复杂的地老虎在葡萄园在theOkanagan谷的BC。该项目将通过在商业葡萄园进行三年的实地试验来推进先前的研究。在第一年，将研究参与有机葡萄园的地老虎复合体，以了解它们在该地点的分布模式和物种组成，并为随后几年选择试验地块。在第2年和第3年，将在一项协调战略中使用生物防治工具，以便在适当的害虫阶段和生境中适时施用。通过将生物防治工具与不同的防治模式相结合，并针对不同的生命阶段，种植者将有一个以可持续的方式管理地老虎种群的计划;从而减少在葡萄藤上使用杀虫剂并对抗害虫抗性。该项目的数据和结果将加速加拿大安德马特公司新的微生物杀虫剂的注册和商业化。加拿大种植者。

The Institute for Sustainable Horticulture (ISH), at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), and AndermattCanada Inc., will partner to explore the most efficacious and sustainable strategy for the management of winter climbing cutworms, with emphasis on the invasive Noctua comes, and determine if some of the same strategiescould be effective against the related invasive polyphagous cutworm, Noctua pronuba. This project builds on work by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (2006-13) and ISH (2018-21) in partnership with the Wine Grape industry to develop biological solutions for climbing cutworm pests. Four promising categories of biocontrol tools, including insect baculoviruses, two pre-commercial fungal species (Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium rileyi), an entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema feltiae, as well as a parasitoid wasp, Trichogramma sp., will be employed to develop the management strategy for the complex of cutworms in vineyards in theOkanagan Valley of BC. This project will advance previous research by carrying out three years of field trials at a commercial vineyard. In the first year, the cutworm complex at a participating organic vineyard will bestudied to understand their distribution pattern and species composition at the site and to select trial plots for subsequent years. In years 2 and 3, the biocontrol tools will be used in a coordinated strategy to timeapplications to the appropriate pest stage and habitat. By incorporating biocontrol tools with different modes ofaction, and targeted to different life stages, growers will have a program to manage cutworm populations in a sustainable manner; thereby reducing the use of pesticides on grapevines and combating pests resistance. The data and results of this project will accelerate the registration and commercialization of new microbialinsecticide(s) by Andermatt Canada Inc. for Canadian growers.