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How to Purchase and Use High Quality Natural Enemies

Learn how to successfully purchase and utilize high-quality natural enemies for effective pest control in agricultural settings. This guide provides detailed information on various natural enemies and their targets, along with guidelines for procurement and proper usage.

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How to Purchase and Use High Quality Natural Enemies

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  1. How to Purchase and Use High Quality Natural Enemies Dr. Norm Leppla & Ken Johnson University of Florida/IFAS IPM Florida FGGA Annual Conference 2010

  2. Grape phylloxera, Viteus vitifoliae Grape Leaf Galls Adult and Nymphs on Grape Roots

  3. Lewis Wright, Florida Entomologist 87:94-99 (2004) They applied DDT to control a very severe housefly outbreak in some campus buildings and observed phenomenal results within 24 hours. They could hardly believe the high level of control and anxiously waited to report the results to the university authorities and manufacturers of DDT. Subsequently, they also achieved high levels of control on bedbugs, cockroaches and body lice.

  4. Grower’s Reaction to Pest Threats

  5. Grower’s Response: Pesticides vs IPM Alien Invasive Pest • Resistant Crop • Competitors • Natural enemies • Resistant varieties Vulnerable Crop • Pesticide program: • Application methods • Resistance management • Integrated pest management program: • Cultural practices • Scouting, Identification of pests and NE • Conservation of natural enemies • Augmentation of natural enemies • Reduced-risk insecticides • Resistance management

  6. Concerns About Pesticides 1947- Pesticide resistance to DDT 1959- Integrated Control Concept, Stern, Smith, van den Bosch, and Hagen Hilgardia 29:81-101. • Integrated control is applied pest control that combines and integrates biological and chemical control. • Chemical control is used as necessary and in a manner which is least disruptive to biological control.

  7. Concerns About Pesticides 1962- Rachael Carson, Silent Spring

  8. What has Integrated Pest Management Become? • IPM is the coordinated use of pest and environmentalinformationandavailablepest controlmethods…. • toprevent unacceptablelevels of pest damage by the mosteconomical means…. • with theleast possible hazardtopeople, property and the environment.

  9. IPM System • REDUCE RISK… • Pest outbreaks & disease epidemics • Environmental contamination • Human health hazards • Pest mgmt. costs INCREASE… • Reliability • Sustainability Chem Biological Control Cultural & Physical Methods

  10. Sustainability of Agriculture • Economic profitability • Environmental health • Social and economic well-being

  11. What is Biological Control? • Suppression of pests by predators, parasites, pathogens or competitors. • Augmentation biological control is the rearing and release of beneficial organisms to suppress pests.

  12. GUIDELINES FOR PURCHASING AND USINGCOMMERCIAL NATURAL ENEMIESIN FLORIDA AND OTHER STATES Norman C. Leppla and Kenneth L. Johnson II

  13. Natural Enemies for Aphids Predatory insects Hemiptera, Orius insidiosus: Minute pirate bug Neuroptera, Chrysoperlacarnea: Lacewing Coleoptera, Hippodamiaconvergens: Ladybeetle Diptera, Aphidoletes aphidimyza: Predatory midge Parasitic wasps Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae, Aphelinus abdominalis Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Aphidius colemani

  14. Minute pirate bug Ladybeetle Predatory midge Aphidius colemani Lacewing

  15. Natural Enemies for Beetles, Caterpillars & Fungus Gnats BEETLES (GRUBS) Parasitic Nematodes, Heterorhabditis megidis CATERPILLARS Predatory insects Hemiptera, Podisusmaculiventris: Spined soldier bug Parasitic wasps Hymenoptera,Trichogramma pretiosum FUNGUS GNATS Parasitic Nematodes, Steinernema feltiae Predatory insests Coleoptera,Staphylinidae,Atheta coriaria Diptera,Cecidomyiidae, Feltiella acarisuga

  16. Trichogramma pretiosum Atheta coriaria Steinernema feltiae Spined soldier bug

  17. Natural Enemies for Leafminers & Mealybugs LEAFMINERS Parasitic wasps Hymenoptera,Braconidae: Dacnusa sibirica Hymenoptera, Eulophidae:Diglyphus isaea MEALYBUGS Predatory insects Coleoptera, CoccinellidaeRhyzobiuslophanthae Coleoptera, Coccinellidae Cryptolaemus montrouzieri: Mealybug destroyer

  18. Rhyzobiuslophanthae Mealybug destroyer Diglyphus isaea Dacnusa sibirica

  19. Natural Enemies for Mites & Scales MITES Predatory mites Phytoseiidae, Amblyseius swirskii Predatory insects Thysnoptera, Scolothrips sexmaculatus: sixspotted thrips Coleoptera, Chrysopidae, Chrysoperlacarnea: Lacewing Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Feltiella acarisuga SCALES Predatory insects Coleoptera, Cybocephalus nipponicus: Scale picnic beetle Coleoptera, Coccinellidae,Rhyzobiuslophanthae

  20. Feltiella acarisuga sixspotted thrips Cybocephalus nipponicus Amblyseius swirskii

  21. Natural Enemies forThrips & Whiteflies THRIPS Predatory mites Phytoseiidae,Amblyseius cucumeris Predatory insects Hemiptera, Anthocoridae, Orius insidiosus: Minute pirate bug Neuroptera, Chrysopidae, Chrysoperlacarnea: Lacewing Coleoptera,Staphylinidae,Atheta coriaria WHITEFLIES Predatory mites Phytoseiidae, Amblyseius swirskii Predatory insects Hemiptera, Anthocoridae, Orius insidiosus: Minute pirate bug Neuroptera, Chrysopidae, Chrysoperlacarnea: Lacewing Coleoptera, CoccinellidaeDelphastuscatalinae

  22. Atheta coriaria Minute pirate bug Lacewing Delphastuscatalinae

  23. How to Purchase and Use High Quality Natural Enemies • More than 34 biological control companies provide nematodes, mites, insects, and bioinsecticides for pest management in Florida. • Many of these companies provide detailed information on how to use their products. • The best companies deliver excellent customer service for site-specific biological control.

  24. http://ifas.ufl.edu

  25. IPM FloridaWebsite • About IPM Florida • Contact Us • What is IPM • Success Stories • Projects Reports • Extension Resources • Training • Planning • Scouting • Pest Identification • Tactics • Measuring IPM • Invasive Species • GMOs • Soil Quality • Water Quality/BMPs • Funding • Employment • Events • Our Listserv • Related Links • Site Map Recent Additions Ask Extension

  26. IPM Florida provides statewide, interdisciplinary and inter-unit coordination and assistance for UF/IFAS integrated pest management research Extension and education faculty

  27. IPM Florida: The UF, IFAS Statewide IPM Program http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu

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