Pest Management of Flowering Plants Under Protected Cultivation

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Sandeep Singh ◽  
Kavita Bajaj
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Protected Cultivation

scholarly journals Consumer Preferences for Traditional, Neonicotinoid-free, Bee-friendly, or Biological Control Pest Management Practices on Floriculture Crops

HortScience ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 721-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi M. Wollaeger ◽  
Kristin L. Getter ◽  
Bridget K. Behe
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Internet Survey ◽  
Flowering Plant ◽  
Production Type ◽  
Utility Scores

Neonicotinoids have recently been implicated by the media as a contributing factor to the decline of honey and bumblebees. We sought to better understand consumer perceptions and willingness to pay for traditional, neonicotinoid-free, bee-friendly, or biological control pest management practices as growers may seek alternative management practices to systemetic insecticides. We conducted a nationwide Internet survey (n = 3082), where consumers answered attitudinal, comprehension, likelihood-to-buy, and demographical questions about indoor (marketed in 10-cm pots) and outdoor (marketed in 30-cm hanging baskets or 10-cm pots) floriculture products. The likelihood-to-buy questions were analyzed using conjoint analysis to determine which attributes had the greatest part-worth scores or which ones were viewed most positively by survey respondents. Of the total participants, 65.1% (n = 2002) of the subjects had purchased an annual flowering plant in the 12 months before the survey. Respondents reported that the most important plant health and appearance factors that affect their purchasing decisions were that the flowering plants have no plant damage, while the second most important factor was that plants have no insects on them. The least important factor in the ranking of stated importance was that no neonicotinoid insecticides were used during the production of the plant. This finding may have resulted from 56.6% of all participants who reported that they did not understand the term. For those who viewed the indoor 10-cm flowering plants (n = 1052), the plant species accounted for 41.2% of the decision to purchase the plant, followed by production type (32.8%) and price (26.0%). All three product attributes were of equal importance to the subjects who viewed the outdoor 10-cm flowering plants (n = 1024), whereas only price had a lower relative importance when compared with production type and species for those who viewed the 30-cm hanging baskets (n = 1006). Across all three studies, use of the term “bee-friendly” had the greatest economic value because it had the highest part-worth utility score, or the greatest willingness-to-buy. For the subjects who viewed the outdoor plants, “bee-friendly” and “use of beneficial insects” had greater economic value (with positive part-worth utility scores), but “neonicotinoid-free” and “traditional insect control” both had negative part-worth utility scores, indicating they were valued less and detracted from the dollar value of the plant. The term “bee-friendly” was worth up to five times more to those respondents that had bought a plant in the last 12 months compared with those who had not. Therefore, if ornamental plants are labeled with pest management practices, most consumers value the term “bee-friendly” more and will likely discount products labeled “neonicotinoid-free.”

A survey on the biological control of leafhoppers and planthoppers, injurious to rice plants by Pipunculids (Diptera)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (08) ◽  
pp. 4767
Author(s):  
Shailendra Kumar Amogh* ◽  
Ashwani Kumar ◽  
Prakash Michael
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Natural Enemies ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Basic Study ◽  
Rice Plants ◽  
Rice Leaf ◽  
Different Seasons ◽  
Rice Pest

The project aim of the research is to find out different species of Pipunculids, natural enemies of rice leaf hoppers and plant hoppers in Indo- Nepal region in order to contribute towards the basic study of taxonomy of Pipunculids and biological control of these pests. In the present work eight specimen of Pipunculids were collected in which two species are new ones (Eudoryllas curvibellata sp. nov. and Pipunculus (Cephalops) Pokharensis sp. nov.) Simultaneously several leaf hoppers were collected and examined in different seasons and in different places. The percentage of parastism by Pipunculids in leaf hoppers was about 27.5%. It was also concluded that fencing of field with flowering plants saves crops because it was observed that the average parasitism was 46.5% in fencing field with flowering plants in comparision to the non-fencing field where the average parasitism was only 13%. Biological control of these pests will offer scope to contribute to better rice pest management.

scholarly journals PESTICIDAL POTENTIAL OF ETHNOBOTANICALLY IMPORTANT PLANTS IN NEPAL – A REVIEW

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Pravin Budhathoki ◽  
Pushpa Gnawali ◽  
Divya Baral ◽  
Amita Gyawal
Keyword(s):  
Toxic Effect ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Pest Resistance ◽  
Lethal Effect ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Botanical Pesticides ◽  
Insect Growth ◽  
Sweet Flag ◽  
Synthetic Pesticides

Pests are considered a major problem in agriculture as they cause a various degree of losses. The use of synthetic pesticides to control these pests has resulted in pest resurgences, pest resistance, environmental degradation and lethal effect to non-target organisms in the agro-ecosystems. To minimize or replace the use of synthetic pesticides, botanical pesticides are important alternatives. They possess a toxic effect against pest including repellent, antifeedant and antibiosis effect against insect growth. In Nepal, among 5,345 species of flowering plants, 324 species have pesticidal properties. Some of the botanicals like Neem, Tobacco, Sweet flag, Garlic, Mint, Ginger, Artemisia, Sichuan pepper, Adhatoda, Basil, Drum-stick, Jatropha, Polygonum, Lantana, Chinaberry etc are widely used in pest management and many types of research have been done to explore the potential of these botanicals. This study aims to review the insecticidal potential of these important ethnobotanical plants. The biopesticides made from these botanicals were found to be effective against various pests. However, efficacy was found to be variable and often lower than that of synthetic pesticides.

Electron investigations of rhabdovirus-like particles in mexican bean beetles and crickets

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-379
Author(s):  
J. R. Adams ◽  
G. J Tompkins ◽  
A. M. Heimpel ◽  
E. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Acheta Domesticus ◽  
Epilachna Varivestis ◽  
House Cricket ◽  
Similar Morphology ◽  
Bean Beetle

As part of a continual search for potential pathogens of insects for use in biological control or on an integrated pest management program, two bacilliform virus-like particles (VLP) of similar morphology have been found in the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Mulsant and the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L. ).Tissues of diseased larvae and adults of E. varivestis and all developmental stages of A. domesticus were fixed according to procedures previously described. While the bean beetles displayed no external symptoms, the diseased crickets displayed a twitching and shaking of the metathoracic legs and a lowered rate of activity.Examinations of larvae and adult Mexican bean beetles collected in the field in 1976 and 1977 in Maryland and field collected specimens brought into the lab in the fall and reared through several generations revealed that specimens from each collection contained vesicles in the cytoplasm of the midgut filled with hundreds of these VLP's which were enveloped and measured approximately 16-25 nm x 55-110 nm, the shorter VLP's generally having the greater width (Fig. 1).

Anatomy of Flowering Plants

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula J. Rudall
Keyword(s):  
Flowering Plants
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