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Seasonal and yearly change in adult abundance of a predacious ladybird Serangium japonicum (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and the citrus whitefly Dialeurodes citri (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in citrus groves

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Serangium japonicum Chapin (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) chiefly attacks whiteflies. This study monitored the adult occurrence of the ladybird and the citrus whitefly Dialeurodes citri (Ashmead) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in citrus groves in central Japan using sticky traps, thereby examining temporal relationships in their abundance. Many S. japonicum adults were captured in a pesticide-free grove where D. citri adults were very abundant, with few adults in neighboring (organic, reduced pesticide, and conventional) groves harboring small numbers of D. citri. The whitefly adults exhibited a large peak in numbers in late May to early June. Two peaks of the ladybird adult numbers were detected in late May to early June and late June to mid-July, −6 to 7 days, and nearly 1 month after the peak in whitefly adult numbers, respectively. The ladybird adults found during the first peak period would be those that visited citrus trees mainly for oviposition, and the adults caught during the second peak period would be those that newly emerged after consuming immature whiteflies at the larval stage. Based on a yearly change in adult numbers in the pesticide-free grove, i.e., a large increase in S. japonicum numbers followed by a rapid decline in D. citri numbers, the ladybird’s role in controlling the whitefly is discussed.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by a grant from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (no. 1111 in ‘Selection of functional biodiversity indicators and development of assessment methods’ in 2008–2011).

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Kaneko, S. Seasonal and yearly change in adult abundance of a predacious ladybird Serangium japonicum (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and the citrus whitefly Dialeurodes citri (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in citrus groves. Appl Entomol Zool 52, 481–489 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-017-0499-7

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