Indirect Effects of Pesticides on Natural Enemies

By R. Cloyd. 2012

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Pesticides including insecticides and miticides are primarily used to regulate arthropod (insect and mite) pest populations in agricultural and horticultural crop production systems. However, continual reliance on pesticides may eventually result in a number of potential ecological problems including resistance, secondary pest outbreaks, and/or target pest resurgence [1,2]. Therefore, implementation of alternative management strategies is justified in order to preserve existing pesticides and produce crops with minimal damage from arthropod pests. One option that has gained interest by producers is integrating pesticides with biological control agents or natural enemies including parasitoids and predators [3]. This is often referred to as ‘compatibility,’ which is the ability to integrate or combine natural enemies with pesticides so as to regulate arthropod pest populations without directly or indirectly affecting the life history parameters or population dynamics of natural enemies [2,4]. This may also refer to pesticides being effective against targeted arthropod pests but relatively non-harmful to natural enemies [5,6].

Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Insect Science

1. W. Jenner
2. C. Rodriguez-Saona
3. R. Isaacs
4. J. Dougoud
5. S. Toepfer
6. M. Bateman
7. B. Blaauw

In Plant Science

1. W. Jenner
2. C. Rodriguez-Saona
3. R. Isaacs
4. J. Dougoud
5. S. Toepfer
6. M. Bateman
7. B. Blaauw

Citations in the corpus

• Efficacy of homemade botanical insecticides based on traditional knowledge. A review (2019, background): “Natural enemies also play an important role in the reduction of pest populations, and the application of pesticides of either synthetic or natural origin can harm them (Cloyd 2012; Pimentel et al. 1992).”
• Mitigating the effects of insecticides on arthropod biological control at field and landscape scales (2014, background): “When reviewing the literature on this topic, it is important to be aware that it is practically impossible to generalize about pesticide impacts across multiple natural enemy species because the effects can vary greatly depending on a number of factors including the type of natural enemy, life stage”