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Enhancement of biological control with beneficial insectary plantings Público Deposited

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  • Five field experiments were conducted to evaluate the relative attractiveness of potential beneficial insectary plants to aphidophagous hover flies and parasitic Hymenoptera and the effectiveness of interplanting selected flowering plants in a broccoli field to enhance biocontrol of the cabbage aphid and green peach aphid. In 1996 we established a preliminary screening trial to begin development of our sampling methods and evaluations of the attractiveness of selected flowering plants to hover flies and parasitic Hymenoptera. In 1997, we conducted a field experiment at the Oregon State University Vegetable Research Farm near Corvallis, OR to assess the relative attractiveness of 11 selected flowering plants to hover flies and parasitic Hymenoptera. Six of these plants were also evaluated for attractiveness to aphidophagous hover flies in two on-farm trials. The experimental design was a complete randomized block design, with four replications at the OSU site, and three replications at the two on-farm sites. Attractiveness of flowering plants to hover flies was assessed by conducting weekly timed observations of feeding frequencies. Associations of parasitic Hymenoptera were assessed by weekly timed vacuum sampling from a fixed area in plots of flowering plants. Attractiveness differed by dates and sites. Among early-season flowering species, Coriandrum sativa (cilantro) was highly attractive to aphidophagous hover flies and Brassica juncea (mustard), Fagopyrum esculentum (buckwheat) and Agastache rugosa (Korean licorice mint) were most attractive to parasitic Hymenoptera. Among late-season flowers, Achillea millefolium (yarrow), Foeniculum vulgare (fennel) and Agastache rugosa (Korean licorice mint) were most attractive to hover flies, but attractiveness to parasitic Hymenoptera did not differ. An on-farm trial was conducted in 1997 at Stahlbush Island Farm near Corvallis, OR. The objective of this trial was to test the hypothesis that interplanting either alyssum (Lobularia maritima), or cilantro (Coriandrum sativa), with broccoli (Brassica oleracea) would attract aphidophagous hover fly adults and parasitic Hymenoptera, enhance oviposition in the adjacent crop, and increase larval predation and parasitism in the adjacent crop, resulting in suppressed cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae) and green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) populations in the broccoli crop. The predominate hover fly species present were Toxomerus occidentalis and T. marginatus. More adult female T. occidentalis were caught in pan traps in plots with alyssum than in cilantro or control plots. More hover fly eggs were found on broccoli leaves and a higher percent of the aphids present were parasitized by Hymenoptera in plots with alyssum than in cilantro or control plots. However, no differences in aphid intensities were found between treatment and control plots. A comparison between the mean number of hover fly eggs found per broccoli leaf and the mean number of aphid counted per broccoli leaf suggests there is an association between the two. There appears to be an aphid density threshold below which few hover fly eggs are laid. Gravid females were present in the crop from the first sampling date on, yet hover fly eggs were not found in the crop until the second to last sampling date. Our results indicate that the presence of alyssum enhanced hover fly activity, but did not result in increased larval predation on aphids in the crop. In 1997 a survey of hover flies was conducted at each of the four experimental sites. Hover flies were captured with sweep nets. Representative specimens were identified to species by Christian Kassebeer, University of Kiel, Germany and subsequent identifications were made from reference specimens and with taxonomic keys. Twenty species were identified, 16 of which are aphidophagous. At the OSU site and the two on-farm sites, where the relative attractiveness of flowering plants was assessed, the six most common aphidophagous species, collected at all three sites, were: Meliscaeva cinctella, Toxomerus marginatus, T. occidentalis, Sphaerophoria sulphuripes, S. pyrrhina, and Scaeva pyrastri.
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