Effect of a plant fortifier (Boundary) on pests and predators of greenhouse vegetable crops

Boundary, a plant fortifier composed of extracts of Sophora flavescens Aiton and brown algae, was tested for control of the leaf miner Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) on tomato (three trials) and of the red spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch on eggplant (one trial) and for side effects on the whitefly predator Macrolophus pygmaeus (Kambur) (two trials) on tomato and on the thrips predators Orius laevigatus (Fieber) and Amblyseius swirskii Athias-Henriot (two trials) on pepper, all in cold greenhouses in South Italy. Control rates for T. absoluta were moderate (40–70%) in the autumn crop but very high and comparable to those for emamectin benzoate in the spring crops (96–100%). Boundary compared well with abamectin against T. urticae, with near complete control. M. pygmaeus was moderately injured in late autumn, but not in early autumn. At the tested application rate and predator population density Boundary was safe for O. laevigatus and A. swirskii.     

木薯园朱砂叶螨种群消长动态与空间分布型

朱砂叶螨在江西东乡木薯上的种群消长表现为2个高峰,一个出现在8月份,另一个出现在11月份,且朱砂叶螨大量爆发。运用聚集型指标、Taylor幂法则和Iwaor的m*-x直线回归分析法,得出朱砂叶螨在7~11月份的空间分布型为聚集分布。最适抽样数N=29.8+37.15/x。更多还原