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Analysis of food resources, host availability and insecticidal impacts on the fecundity, longevity and parasitism efficiency of Diaertiella rapae (M’intosh)

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The use of pesticides may pose a serious threat to soil and water quality, human health, food safety, aquatic species and beneficial insects. Biological control is an effective component of integrated pest management comprising importation, augmentation and conservation. Conservation of natural enemies could enhance or limit the efficiency of herbivorous insect pests. The present study was designed to evaluate the efficiency of Diaeretiella rapae (McIntosh) and other food resources impacts on parasitoid’s fecundity, survival and efficiency. The effect of different insecticides [Carbosulfan, Imidacloprid, Diafenthiuron and Lufenuron] was also evaluated in a laboratory controlled experiment. The results revealed that females fed on aphid honeydew proved to be of poor quality as compared to other sugar sources, including honey and sugar solution and has a positive impact of mating on monogenesis. The negative impact was observed on oviposition activity by female reared in the laboratory having less number of mature eggs than females collected in the field. All insecticides demonstrated dose-dependent mortality of D. rapae. In conclusion, food and host availability and insecticides affect the efficiency of D. rapae. These results could lead to the hypothesis that D. rapae females have a high mortality rate in the field due to lower aphid hosts.

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source dependent parasitism (%) of cabbage aphid by D. rapae in term of mummification of aphids after different exposure intervals (days)

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Abbreviations

GM:

Genetically modified

FAO:

Food and agriculture organization

USDA:

United States Department of Agriculture

RH:

Relative humidity

LD:

Light day

ANOVA:

Analysis of variance

IPM:

Integrated pest management

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Acknowledgements

We are profoundly grateful to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan who provided the financial support to this project. We also acknowledge the support of the King Khalid University (RCAMS/KKU/08-20) Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS) at King Khalid University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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We also acknowledge the support of the King Khalid University (RCAMS/KKU/010–19) Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS) at King Khalid University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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  1. Integrated Pest Management Laboratory, Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Ahmad Nawaz, Habib Ali & Muhammad Sufyan

  2. Department of Agricultural Engineering At, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, 64200, Pakistan

    Habib Ali, Yasir Niaz & Muhamamd Adnan Bodlah

  3. Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, The University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 22620, Pakistan

    Sajid Fiaz

  4. Department of Entomology, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture, Multan, 60000, Pakistan

    Miza Abdul Qayyum

  5. Department of Entomology, The University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 22620, Pakistan

    Rashid Azad

  6. Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Khalid Ali Khan

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AN and HA supervised the work, analyzed the data, and approved the final manuscript. SF, MS, MAQ, RA supervised the part of study related to field trial. YN, MAB, KAK contributed in writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Nawaz, A., Ali, H., Fiaz, S. et al. Analysis of food resources, host availability and insecticidal impacts on the fecundity, longevity and parasitism efficiency of Diaertiella rapae (M’intosh). Int J Trop Insect Sci 41, 2883–2896 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-021-00472-0

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