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Response of grassland soil arthropod community to biological and conventional control of a native moth: using Beauveria bassiana and lambda-cyhalothrin for Dalaca pallens (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) suppression

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Conventional and biological control of a native moth, Dalaca pallens (Blanchard) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), were evaluated in Southern Chile in relation to changes on community metrics (diversity, species richness, evenness and dominance) of a soil-dwelling invertebrate assemblage. Two experiments were conducted (in winter and spring) to compare non-target effects of Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin and lambda-cyhalothrin insecticide. The invertebrate community was sampled before and after spraying by extracting soil cores. Estimates of diversity (Shannon index), species richness, evenness (Hurlbert’s Probability of Interspecific Encounter) and dominance indicated that the invertebrate assemblage was strongly disturbed by lambda-cyhalothrin treatment but not by B. bassiana applied in winter, over the sampling period (40 days). Spring results revealed that diversity and evenness at control and at B. bassiana plots were similar between them and higher than at lambda-cyhalothrin plots, while there were no differences between sites 30 days after treatment in species richness. Inundative biological control using B. bassiana strain QU-B931 was considered to pose lower ecological risk than lambda-cyhalothrin, currently one of the most frequently used insecticides for D. pallens control.

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Abbreviations

PIE:

probability of interspecific encounters

UACH:

Universidad Austral de Chile

A.I.:

active ingredient

µl:

microliter

INIA:

Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Ministerio de Agricultura, Chile

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Acknowledgements

We thank David Vázquez and Howard Thistlewood for statistical advice and for comments on the manuscript, respectively, and Leticia Silvestre for carabid identification. Funding was provided by the Dirección de Investigación y Desarrollo, Universidad Austral de Chile, through Project DID D-2003-2. LD was supported by MECESUP AUS-9904.

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  1. Escuela de Graduados, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Austral de Chile (UACH), Campus Isla Teja s/n, Valdivia, Chile

    Luis Devotto & Ernesto Cisternas

  2. Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA), Centro Regional de Investigación Quilamapu, Avda. Vicente Méndez 515, Chillán, Chile

    Luis Devotto & Marcos Gerding

  3. Instituto de Producción y Sanidad Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Campus Isla Teja s/n, Valdivia, Chile

    Roberto Carrillo

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Devotto, L., Cisternas, E., Gerding, M. et al. Response of grassland soil arthropod community to biological and conventional control of a native moth: using Beauveria bassiana and lambda-cyhalothrin for Dalaca pallens (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) suppression. BioControl 52, 507–531 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-006-9037-1

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