BACKGROUND Tests were conducted on two insecticides (carbaryl and bifenthrin) for excluding subcortical beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae and Cerambycidae) from loblolly pine trees (Pinus taeda L.). Two trap designs (single- and double-pane windows) and two trapping heights (1.5 and 4 m) were also evaluated for maximizing beetle catches. RESULTS In July 2009, 15 loblolly pine trees were doub...

The basic principles of a reliable integrated pest management program include pest identification, monitoring, and distribution. Selecting the appropriate sampling protocol to monitor wireworm for research or applied entomology depends on the objective, including simply detecting the presence or absence of wireworm, surveying the composition of wireworm assemblages, or estimating spatial and te...

Wedetermined that spinosad interacts synergistically with the biocontrol agentMetarhizium anisopliae (Metch) Sorokin to increase the mortality of two wild-collected wireworm species, Agriotes lineatus(L.), andAgriotes obscurus(L.).BioassayswereperformedusingaM.anisopliae isolate originally acquired from a local wireworm cadaver.M. anisopliaewas applied as a soil drench at 3.3 10 and 10 conidia ...

The western corn rootworm Diabrotica virgifera (WCR), and the wireworm Agriotes sordidus (WW), whose eggs first instar larvae develop in few centimeters of soil, are major crop pests. As soil-dwelling predatory mites known as potential biocontrol agents against many pests, we investigated predation capacity Stratiolaelaps scimitus, Gaeolaelaps aculeifer Macrocheles robustulus on immature stages...