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Pest Ecology and Biological Control in Oil and Row Crops
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Pest Ecology and Biological Control in Oil and Row Crops

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 991

Special Issue Editor

Dr. José Bruno Malaquias

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Entomology Laboratory, Center for Agrarian Sciences, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Areia 58397-000, Brazil
Interests: insect ecology; biological control

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Historically, research on the ecology of insect species in the context of biological control has remained largely in demand, particularly when it is focused on insects of economic importance. The biological control of pests has been widely practiced since ancient times; nevertheless, more studies highlighting its importance are being conducted today. To this end, we are launching a Special Issue on pest ecology and biological control in oil and row crops. The main required article types are articles (original research manuscripts) and reviews (concise and precise updates on the latest progress made in each area of research).

Dr. José Bruno Malaquias
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • pest ecology
  • biocontrol
  • predators
  • parasitoids
  • pathogens
  • oil crops
  • row crops

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Virulence of Isolated and Pre-Inoculated Mixture of Two Mycoinsecticides to the Fennel Aphid, Hyadaphis foeniculi, and Their Impact on the Functional Response of the Ring-Legged Earwig, Euborellia annulipes
by Carla Rebeca Dos Santos Mite Viagem, Evelyn Sales da Silva, Silvio Lisboa de Souza Junior, Letícia Waléria Oliveira dos Santos, Allef de Souza Silva, Luana Vitória de Queiroz Oliveira, Ivonne Maritza Buenaventura Ramírez, Angélica da Silva Salustino, Bianca Marina Costa Nascimento, Flávia Virgínia Ferreira de Arruda, Jacinto de Luna Batista and José Bruno Malaquias
Agronomy 2025, 15(2), 283; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15020283 - 23 Jan 2025
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Hyadaphis foeniculi is a significant phytosanitary issue in fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) cultivation, necessitating rational management strategies, such as biological control using entomopathogenic fungi and natural predators. This research aimed to assess the virulence parameters of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and [...] Read more.
Hyadaphis foeniculi is a significant phytosanitary issue in fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) cultivation, necessitating rational management strategies, such as biological control using entomopathogenic fungi and natural predators. This research aimed to assess the virulence parameters of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae, isolated or in mixture, in the mortality of H. foeniculi, and investigate the compatibility of these fungi with the predator Euborellia annulipes, analyzing the functional response when preying-on-aphids. The experiment was conducted under laboratory conditions. The lethal concentrations (LC50 and LC90), the median lethal time (LT50), and the percentage of survival of H. foeniculi nymphs subjected to topical application of the fungi were evaluated. No significant difference existed between the lethal concentrations and LT50 of the fungi alone or combined, with LC50 estimated at 1.17 × 106 conidia of B. bassiana per milliliter of water suspension and 1.20 × 106 conidia of M. anisopliae per milliliter of water suspension, when isolated. When in mixture, we observed LC50 for the mixture of fungi M. anisopliae and B. bassiana estimated at 3.06 × 103 viable conidia of B. bassiana, and 1.17 × 103 viable conidia of M. anisopliae per mL of distilled water. Therefore, the mixture of fungi showed remarkable promise, resulting in a high aphid mortality rate. Adult females of E. annulipes were used to evaluate the compatibility of the fungi with this predator and were exposed to the fungi to assess its functional response to nymphs of fennel aphid. The fungi had no significant effect on the functional response parameters of the females exposed to the treatments. Thus, the two bioagents (predator and fungi) proved compatible and promising for fennel aphid biological control programs. Full article
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