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Pest Manag Sci
August 2024
Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Background: Halyomorpha halys is one of the most damaging invasive agricultural pests in North America and southern Europe. It is commonly monitored using pheromone traps, which are not very effective because few bugs are caught and some escape and/or remain outside the trap on surrounding plants where they feed, increasing the damage. Other monitoring techniques are based on visual sampling, sweep-netting and tree-beating.
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August 2024
Department of Entomology and Acarology, University of São Paulo, "Luiz de Queiroz" College of Agriculture (ESALQ/USP), Piracicaba, Brazil.
Background: Soybean is the third-greatest global commodity crop with respect to grain production, Brazil is the largest soybean producer in the world. We performed the first extensive survey including all the five main soybean cultivation regions in Brazil over three seasons (2018/2019, 2019/2020, and 2020/2021). A total of 2386 localities were sampled, corresponding to 145 municipalities in 11 states.
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December 2020
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), University of Torino, Largo P. Braccini 2, I-10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy.
Following its first detection in North Italy in 2012, has become a serious threat in many crops, including hazelnut. The present study aimed at investigating dispersal capacity and behavior in relation to host plants of overwintered adults of before the colonization of hazelnut crop. Research was carried out in four polyculture areas (from 14 to 50 ha) in north-western Italy in 2018, by using (i) pheromone-baited traps, (ii) visual inspection and beating sheet sampling, and (iii) immunomarking-capture technique.
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November 2019
Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, I-38010 San Michele all'Adige, Italy.
Improvements to current brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), , surveillance and killing systems are needed to improve detection sensitivity and to reduce pesticide use. Detection of BMSB in New Zealand with traps is reliant on sticky panels with aggregation pheromone, which are low cost but inefficient compared with beating foliage. Trapping for BMSB adults and nymphs was conducted daily with lethal traps consisting of an aggregation pheromone-baited-coat hanger covered with dark-colored long-lasting insecticide-treated mesh, we termed "The Nazgȗl", based on its sinister appearance.
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August 2015
Departament de Biologia Animal (Artròpodes), Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avda Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain IRBio Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
With the aim of gaining insight into true bugs assemblages, and of giving tools to enhance environmental manager tasks, an analysis was made of the alpha and beta diversity of true bug assemblages in the NE Iberian Peninsula. The study took place during the years 1999, 2000, and 2001. The diversity of true bug assemblages among four typical Mediterranean plant communities (dry grassland, calcicolous rosemary scrub, kermes oak scrub, and evergreen oak forest) in a protected natural area was compared.
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