Functional Response of Encarsia formosa (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) to different densities of Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) nymphs on three host plants

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Authors

1 Plant Protection Research Department, Isfahan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center

2 Mohaghegh Ardabili University of Ardabil, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resources.

3 Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mohaghegh Ardabili University of Ardabil, Iran

4 Biological Control Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The influence of three host plants, cucumber, tomato and eggplant on functional response of Encarsia formosa was investigated at different densities of early fourth nymphal instar of Trialeurodes
vaporariorum under laboratory conditions at 25 ± 1°C, 65 ± 5% RH and a photoperiod of 16:8 (L: D) h. Whitefly nymphs were offered to the parasitoids in densities of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 48 on leaf disks (8-10 cm2) in 12 replicates. After 24 hours, the parasitoids were removed and the number of parasitized as well as the killed nymphs by host feeding activity was recorded. Logistic regression results showed a type II functional response for both types of "parasitism" and "parasitism + host feeding" activities in all three host plants. There were no significant differences between attack rates (a) across three host plants, but the handling time (Th) estimated on tomato was significantly shorter than those estimated on cucumber. The attack rate of E. formosa in "parasitism" activity on cucumber, tomato and eggplant was 0.2580±0.0963, 0.3895±0.1331 and 0.3283±0.1368 h-1 and handling time was 0.6870±0.0810, 0.3364±0.0399 and 0.5584±0.0692 h, respectively. Based on the results, it seems that tomato is the most suitable plant for the parasitism and host feeding activities of E. formosa to control of the greenhouse whitefly T. vaporariorum in greenhouse conditions.

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