Population dynamics of mites in slow-release sachets used in biological control: a new study methodology.
Amblyseius swirskii
Carpoglyphidae
Carpoglyphus lactis
Hexane flotation
Phytoseiidae
Quality control
Journal
Experimental & applied acarology
ISSN: 1572-9702
Titre abrégé: Exp Appl Acarol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8507436
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2022
Aug 2022
Historique:
received:
06
06
2022
accepted:
11
08
2022
pubmed:
20
8
2022
medline:
8
9
2022
entrez:
19
8
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Predatory mite species (Acari: Phytoseiidae) are essential tools in the biological control of greenhouses pests. The natural enemies can be released directly into a crop. A better, partly preventive system is to place slow-release sachets on the plants. Inside such sachets is a factitious prey's food substrate-which also acts as refuge-and the predator. The objective of this study was to develop a new methodology to evaluate the population dynamics of this sachet system, based on the factitious prey Carpoglyphus lactis and the predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii. Through two tests carried out under laboratory conditions, the sachets were first compared to the traditional extraction method that uses Berlese-Tullgren funnels and an extraction method using flotation in hexane. The latter method proved more effective at sampling the motile states (larvae, nymphs, and adults), both for the predatory species and for the factitious prey, extracting up to 3.7 × more mites than the Berlese-Tullgren funnel. Second, the population dynamics of both mite species was studied in a laboratory test, both inside and outside the sachets. In this way, a positive correlation was demonstrated between the number of predatory mites and the number of prey mites inside the sachets. Conversely, no correlation was found between the interior population of predatory mites and the number that venture outside. We can conclude that hexane extraction is very useful both in quality control of predatory mites and in studying how the sachets behave when faced with various factors.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35984583
doi: 10.1007/s10493-022-00739-2
pii: 10.1007/s10493-022-00739-2
doi:
Substances chimiques
Hexanes
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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