The effect treatments with the recommended application rates of avermectin, buprofezin, white oil, lambda-cyhalothrin and cyromazine on Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Aleyrodidae: Homoptera) was evaluated. Pesticides were applied against larvae infesting brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) plants in a natural environment of the Cameron Highlands, Pahang...

Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur, 1839) (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae) is a predator of key vegetable crop pests applied as a biocontrol agent in the Mediterranean region. Macrolophus pygmaeus and Macrolophus melanotoma (A. Costa, 1853) are cryptic species with great morphological similarity which results in their misidentification and negative consequences for the conservation of their population...

It is a new synonym of Macrolophus melanotoma (Costa 1853) according to Carapezza (1995). It is very difficult to be separated from Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur,1839) and recent studies using mitochondrial DNA analysis, morphological studies and crossings between populations (Perdikis et al. 2003), molecular methods (Martinez-Cascales et al. 2006) and Perdikis et al. (unpubl. data) showed that ...

The European Union (EU) and its constituent governments are committed to increasing the success of biocontrol in Europe, and are currently seeking a pan-European balanced regulatory system to aid this objective. The concept of ‘balance’ recognizes that (a) the complexity of any licensing system must be proportionate to risk, (b) industrial producers of biocontrol agents have limited RandD budge...

Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) has quickly developed into a significant tomato pest worldwide. While the recently found mirid predators Macrolophus basicornis (Stal), Engytatus varians (Distant) and Campyloneuropsis infumatus (Carvalho) of this pest are able to establish and reproduce on tomato, biological knowledge of these mirids is still limited. Here we describe the functional response of the thre...