Opiine parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and biological control of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Australia: Past, present and future

The Tephritidae family has many fruit fly species responsible for causing direct and indirect damage to economically important fruit trees worldwide. Biological control has been sought as a method for the management of these insects, mainly because it does not cause adverse damage to the environment. Thus, this review sought information on what is currently being published in the scientific field about the main biological agents that are used to control fruit flies. The information was obtained through surveys between the months of June and August 2020, in bases such as the Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Scielo. The inclusion of the articles followed criteria such as publication language English, Portuguese and Spanish, available in full, from categories A1 to B1, related to the biological agents used in the control of fruit flies and published in the last five years. A total of 2,362 studies were found, of which 105 articles were selected for this review. Regarding the years of publication, only 27% of the studies correspond to references from the years 2019 and 2020, with a greater number of research on parasitoids and developed in the laboratory. The largest concentration of research was in countries like Brazil, Mexico, and Spain.

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Economic impact of biological control of mango-infesting fruit flies: a case study of Kenya.

Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods, Langkawi, Malaysia, September 11-15, 2017 ◽

10.1079/9781786394118.0317 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 317-319

Author(s):

B. W. Muriithi ◽

S. A. Mohamed ◽

E. Sunday

Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Economic Impact ◽

Fruit Flies

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Biological Control of Tephritid Fruit Flies in the Americas and Hawaii: A Review of the Use of Parasitoids and Predators

Insects ◽

10.3390/insects11100662 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (10) ◽

pp. 662

Author(s):

Flávio R. M. Garcia ◽

Sérgio M. Ovruski ◽

Lorena Suárez ◽

Jorge Cancino ◽

Oscar E. Liburd

Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Fruit Fly ◽

Fruit Flies ◽

Economic Importance ◽

Parasitoid Species ◽

Control Programs ◽

First Time ◽

Tephritid Fruit Flies

Biological control has been the most commonly researched control tactic within fruit fly management programs. For the first time, a review is carried out covering parasitoids and predators of fruit flies (Tephritidae) from the Americas and Hawaii, presenting the main biological control programs in this region. In this work, 31 species of fruit flies of economic importance are considered in the genera Anastrepha (11), Rhagoletis (14), Bactrocera (4), Ceratitis (1), and Zeugodacus (1). In this study, a total of 79 parasitoid species of fruit flies of economic importance are listed and, from these, 50 are native and 29 are introduced. A total of 56 species of fruit fly predators occur in the Americas and Hawaii.

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Biological control of fruit flies in Brazil

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira ◽

10.1590/s1678-3921.pab2019.v54.26037 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Beatriz Jordão Paranhos ◽

Dori Edson Nava ◽

Aldo Malavasi

Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Review Paper ◽

Current Knowledge ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Classical Biological Control ◽

Fruit Flies ◽

Control Programs ◽

Bactrocera Carambolae ◽

Fruit Growing ◽

Effective Use

Abstract: Fruit flies are the main pests of fruit growing in Brazil. They have been managed predominantly with the use of insecticides applied as cover spray and or/as toxic baits. Currently, the trend of management strategies is toward the adoption of methods that cause the lowest environmental impact in large areas. In this context, biological control is an excellent option to be used together with other management strategies, such as sterile insects, because it leaves no residues, does not disturb nontarget pests, and can be permanent if the natural enemy establishes itself in the field. This review paper addresses the current knowledge on the biological control of fruit flies in Brazil, highlighting the great biodiversity of its natural enemies, especially parasitoids, its biology and ecology. The classical biological control programs in Brazil are also reported, from the introduction of Tetrastichus giffardianus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), in 1937, to control Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae), to that of Fopius arisanus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), in 2012, to control Bactrocera carambolae (Diptera: Tephritidae). Finally, the obtained advances are pointed out, as well as the main bottlenecks and perspectives for the effective use of biological control programs against fruit flies.

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Spondias mombin as a reservoir of fruit fly parasitoid populations in the Eastern Amazon: an undervalued ecosystem service

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.11530 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. e11530

Author(s):

Maria do Socorro Miranda de Sousa ◽

Ezequiel de Deus ◽

Adilson Lopes Lima ◽

Cristiane Ramos de Jesus ◽

Salustiano Vilar da Costa Neto ◽

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Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Native Species ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Fruit Fly ◽

Fruit Trees ◽

Fruit Flies ◽

Environmental Damage ◽

Spondias Mombin ◽

Fruit Fly Parasitoids

Fruit flies are economically important pests that infest a wide variety of host trees. The environmental damage caused by traditional pesticide-based control methods has prompted scientists to seek less damaging alternatives such as biological control by native species. Parasitoids, especially Braconidae species, have excellent potential as biological control agents for fruit flies, being both generalists and well distributed geographically. Native fruit trees that support medium or high levels of these parasitoids could therefore play an important role in biological control strategies. A good potential example is Spondias mombin L. in the Brazilian Amazon, which hosts several species of fruit flies and associated parasitoids. Here, we provide a unique synthesis of over nearly two decades of data from the east Amazon, clearly demonstrating the potential of S. mombin to act as a source and reservoir of fruit fly parasitoids. This important ecosystem service (biological control) provided by the parasitoids and supported by S. mombin could be further enhanced through conservation of this plant species in its natural environment.

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Biological Control of Tephritid Fruit Flies by Inundative Releases of Natural Enemies

Fruit Flies ◽

10.1007/978-1-4757-2278-9_61 ◽

1993 ◽

pp. 311-318 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R. E. Gingrich

Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Natural Enemies ◽

Fruit Flies ◽

Inundative Releases ◽

Tephritid Fruit Flies

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Newly imported larval parasitoids pose minimal competitive risk to extant egg–larval parasitoid of tephritid fruit flies in Hawaii

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1079/ber2002181 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 92 (5) ◽

pp. 423-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

X.G. Wang ◽

R.H. Messing

Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Fruit Fly ◽

Classical Biological Control ◽

Fruit Flies ◽

Fopius Arisanus ◽

Larval Parasitoids ◽

Larval Parasitoid ◽

Fruit Fly Parasitoids ◽

Psyttalia Concolor ◽

Tephritid Fruit Flies

AbstractCompetitive displacement of fruit fly parasitoids has been a serious issue in the history of fruit fly biological control in Hawaii. This concern regarding competitive risk of new parasitoids has led to an overall tightening of regulations against the use of classical biological control to manage fruit flies. Fopius arisanus (Sonan), an egg–larval parasitoid, is the most effective natural enemy of tephritid fruit flies in Hawaii. This study evaluated the competitive risk of two recently introduced larval parasitoids, Diachasmimorpha kraussii Fullaway and Psyttalia concolor (Szépligeti), to F. arisanus attacking the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann). Fopius arisanus won almost all intrinsic competitions against both larval parasitoids through physiological suppression of egg development. 83.3% of D. kraussii eggs and 80.2% of P. concolor eggs were killed within three days in the presence of F. arisanus larvae within the bodies of multi-parasitized hosts. The mechanism that F. arisanus employs to eliminate both larval parasitoids is similar to that it uses against three other early established larval fruit fly parasitoids: F. vandenboschi (Fullaway), D. longicaudata (Ashmead) and D. tryoni (Cameron). It suggests that introduction of these larval parasitoids poses minimal competitive risk to F. arisanus in Hawaii.

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