Impact of the Invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), in Mid-Atlantic Tree Fruit Orchards in the United States: Case Studies of Commercial Management
By Tracy Leskey, B. Short, B. Butler, S. Wright. 2012
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Four commercial orchards in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States were surveyed weekly in 2010 and 2011 for the presence of brown marmorated stink bug and the injury caused to both apple and peaches. Among tested sampling techniques, pyramid traps baited with the aggregation pheromone of Plautia stali Scott, methyl-(2E,4E,6Z)-decatrienoate, yielded the most brown marmorated stink bug adults and nymphs, followed by visual observations. Brown marmorated stink bugs began to feed on apples and peaches soon after fruit set and continued to feed on fruit throughout the growing season. Injury to apple was relatively inconsequential until after mid-June, whereas feeding on peaches resulted in immediate economic injury as the surface became distorted, dented, discolored, and the flesh beneath turned brown. Significantly more apples were injured and with greater severity in 2010 than in 2011. Likewise, percent injury on the exterior portion of each apple plot was significantly greater than injury reported from the interior in both years. Growers increased the number of insecticide applications nearly 4-fold from 2010 to 2011. In addition to the increased number of targeted insecticide applications, growers also reduced the interval between treatments in 2011. A metric was created to compare the relative intensity of each grower's commercial management program between seasons and amongst each other.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Insect Science
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- Review of the chemical control research on Halyomorpha halys in the USA (2017, background): “Nielsen et al. (2008) and Leskey et al. (2012b) also found that H. halys recovered from a moribund state after exposure to certain pyrethroids.”
- PEST STATUS OF THE BROWN MARMORATED STINK BUG, HALyOMORPHA HALyS IN THE USA (2012, background): “In orchards where BMSB is established, it quickly becomes the predominant stink bug species and, unlike native stink bugs, is a season-long pest (Nielsen & Hamilton 2009b, Leskey et al. 2012b).”
- Halyomorpha halys, a serious threat for hazelnut in newly invaded areas (2018, background): “halys establishes on wild or cultivated host plants grown in the surroundings and migrates into the hazel crop area throughout the season, as already reported for other crops (Leskey et al. 2012; Rice et al. 2014).”
- Citizen science and early detection of invasive species: phenology of first occurrences of Halyomorpha halys in Southern Europe (2016, unknown): “…period to collect data on BMSB presence, because adult bugs are easily noticed inside buildings in any setting, (b) even the smallest green area in a city can host BMSB; (c) these bugs, already known to prefer the higher parts of plants (Leskey et al. 2012b), are able to fly higher than 25 m.”
- Natural enemy impact on eggs of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in organic agroecosystems: A regional assessment (2016, background): “The response in 2011 by some growers was adoption of an intense insecticide program, using up to four times the amount of pesticide used in 2010, most of which were broad spectrum chemicals (Leskey et al., 2012b).”