Effects of five insecticides on western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on eggplant, in Isfahan

Document Type : Pest Management

Authors

1 former M.Sc. student of entomology, respectively, Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

2 Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

 
 Western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is an important plant pest that attacks varieties of ornamental and agricultural crops and causes significant damage. Currently, the main method for controlling this pest is using insecticides. In this study, the effects of five common insecticides; imidacloprid, profenofos, cypermethrin, matrine, flonicamid and control (water) on the abundance of thrips and eggplant crop yield were investigated in 1401 in Isfahan by several field experiments. The resuls showed that the insecticides flonicamid, matrine and profenofos had the greatest effect on the adult thrips population with 70, 60.92 and 59.54% reduction, respectively, and all insecticides used were effective on the immature of western flower thrips. The study of the economic aspects for thrips chemical control in eggplant also showed that the yield of the crop increased by 86.22, 84.95 and 71.90 percent using flunicamid, profenofos and matrine compared to the control, respectively. It was also found that using insecticides reduces the severity of damage to the marketability of eggplant, while without using insecticide, the damage severity index was 3.07 percent, in insecticide treatments, this index varied from 2.25 to 2.70 percent.

Keywords

Main Subjects

References

AFSHARIZADEH BAMI, A., K. MINAEI, M. ALICHI and F. BAGHERI. 2018. Host plant range of western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) and onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Badjgah (Shiraz). Plant Protection Journal (Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch), 9: 163-172.
AKDENIZ, D. and A. ÖZMEN, 2011. Antimitotic effects of the biopesticide oxymatrine. Caryologia, 64(1): 117-120. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00087114.2011.10589771
BIELZA, P. and J. GUILLÉN, 2015. Cyantraniliprole: a valuable tool for Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) management. Pest Management Science. 71(8): 1068-1074. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.3886
BILBO, T. R., S. C., SCHOOF, and J. F. WALGENBACH, 2020. Foliar insecticide efficacy against western flower thrips in staked tomato, 2019. Arthropod Management Tests. 45(1): ntsaa063. Doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1093/amt/ntsaa063
CHUNG, B. K. (2001). Analysis of damage by Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in eggplants. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 4(2): 149-155. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1226-8615(08)60123-5.
CHUNG, B. K., S. W. KANG and J. H. KWON, 2000. Chemical control system of Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in greenhouse eggplant. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 3(1): 1-9. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1226-8615(08)60092-8
CLOYD, R. A. 2009. Western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) management on ornamental crops grown in greenhouses: have we reached an impasse. Pest Technology. 3(1): 1-9.
COUTTS, B., and R. JONES, 2005. Suppressing spread of Tomato spotted wilt virus by drenching infected source or healthy recipient plants with neonicotinoid insecticides to control thrips vectors. Annals of Applied Biology. 146(1): 95-103. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7348.2005.040010.x
DARA, S. K. 2017. Managing western flower thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on lettuce and green peach aphid and cabbage aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on broccoli with chemical insecticides and the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae). The Open Plant Science Journal. 10 (1). Doi: https://doi.org/10.2174/1874294701710010001
 
DRIPPS, J., L. GOMEZ, A. WEISS, J. FUNDERBURK, B. CASTRO and D. PAROONAGIAN, 2010. Insecticide rotation as a component of thrips resistance management programs. Resistant Pest Management Newsletter. 19: 32-35.
GAO, Y., Z. LEI and S. R. REITZ, 2012. Western flower thrips resistance to insecticides: detection, mechanisms and management strategies. Pest Management Science. 68(8): 1111-1121.  Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.3305.
GHOLAMI, Z. and A. SADEGHI, 2016. Management strategies for western flower thrips in vegetable greenhouses in Iran: A review. Plant Protection Science, 52(2): 87-98. Doi: https://doi.org/10.17221/80/2015-PPS.
GHOLAMI, Z., A. SADEGHI, A. SHEIKHI GARJAN, J. NAZEMI RAFI and F. GHOLAMI, 2015. Susceptibility of western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) to some synthetic and botanical insecticides under laboratory conditions. Journal of Crop Protection, 4 (Supplementary): 627-632.
GHOLAMI, Z., J. K. TALEBI, V. HOSSEININAVEH, and H. MOSALLANEJAD, 2020. Characteristic of resistance to dichlorvos and biochemical mechanisms in the greenhouse strains of Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal Crop Protection, 9(2): 195-207. Doi: https://doi.org/10.22069/JCP.2019.16337.2632
GILL, H. K. and H. GARG, 2014. Pesticide: environmental impacts and management strategies. Pesticides-Toxic Aspects, 8(187): 10-5772. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5772/57399
GILL, H. K., H. GARG, A. K. GILL, J. L. GILLETT-KAUFMAN and B. A. NAULT, 2015. Onion thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) biology, ecology, and management in onion production systems. Journal of Integrated Pest Management. 6 (1): 6. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jipm/pmv006
GUILLÉN, J., M. NAVARRO and P. BIELZA, 2014. Cross-resistance and baseline susceptibility of spirotetramat in Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of Economic Entomology. 107(3): 1239-1244. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1603/EC14023
JALILI MOGHADAM, M. and P. AZMAYESH FARD. 2004. Thrips of ornamental plants in Tehran and
Mahallat. In Proceeding of the 16th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, Tabriz, Iran (p. 16). (In Persian with English summary).
KANSAGARA, S., K. D. SHAH, A. R. RATHOD, M. K. GHELANI and M. F. ACHARYA, 2018. Bio-efficacy of different insecticides against thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood) in green gram. Current Agriculture Research Journal. 6(3): 365. Doi: https://doi.org/ 10.12944/CARJ.6.3.13
KIRK, W. D. and L. I. TERRY, 2003. The spread of the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande). Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 5(4): 301-310. Doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1046/j.1461-9563.2003.00192.x
KONTSEDALOV, S., P. G. WEINTRAUB, A. R. HOROWITZ and I. ISHAAYA, 1998. Effects of insecticides on immature and adult western flower thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Israel. Journal of Economic Entomology. 91: 1067-1071. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/91.5.1067
LEE, Y. S., H. A. LEE, H. J. LEE, S. S. HONG, C. S. KANG, Y. S. CHOI, H. H. KIM and M. J. JANG, 2017. Insecticide susceptibility of western flower thrip, Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on horticultural crops in Gyeonggi area. Korean Journal of Applied Entomology. 56(2): 179-186. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5656/KSAE.2017.04.0.014
MINAEI, K. 2016. Thrips, minute insects but opportunist. Shiraz University.
MURRAY, B. I. 2006. Botanical insecticides, deterrents, and repellents in modern agriculture and an increasingly regulated world. Annual Review of Entomology, 51: 45-66. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/.51.110104.151146
MORSE, J. G., and M. S. HODDLE, 2006. Invasion biology of thrips. Annual Review of Entomology. 51(1): 67-89. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/51.110104.151044.
MORISHITA, M. 2001. Toxicity of some insecticides to larvae of Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) evaluated by the Petri dishspraying tower method. Applied Entomology and Zoology, 36(1): 137-141. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1303/aez.2001.137
NAULT, B. A. and A. M. SHELTON, 2010. Impact of insecticide efficacy on developing action thresholds for pest management: a case study of onion thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on onion.
Journal of Economic Entomology. 103(4): 1315-1326. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1603/EC10056
NADERI, V. and N. POORJAVAD, 2021. Competition between Frankliniella occidentalis and Thrips tabaci on cucumber and their abundance on several greenhouse plants. Phytopathology and Entomology Applied. 89(1): 51-63. Doi: https://doi.org/10.52547/aepp.89.1.51
NEGASH, B., F. AZEREFEGNE and G. AYALEW, 2019. Farmers’ insecticide use practices and species composition and abundance of thrips species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on onion in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 14(32): 1537-43. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2019.14153
PANTNER, W. 1992. Manual for field Trials in plant protection. Arkan Publications, Isfahan.
RADOSEVICH, D. L., R. A. CLOYD and N. J. HERRICK, 2020. Effects of spray volume and application frequency on insecticide efficacy against adult western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) under Greenhouse Conditions. HortScience. 55(10): 1708-1714. Doi: https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI15252-20
REISIG, D. D., D. A. HERBERT and S. MALONE, 2012. Impact of neonicotinoid seed treatments on thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and soybean yield in Virginia and North Carolina. Journal of Economic Entomology. 105(3): 884-889.  .Doi: https://doi.org/10.1603/EC12040
REITZ, S. R. and J. FUNDERBURK, 2012. Management strategies for western flower thrips and the role of insecticides. Insecticides–Pest Engineering. 355-384. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5772/27885
SHAN, C., S. MA, M. WANG and G. GAO, 2012. Evaluation of insecticides against the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentals (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), in the laboratory. Florida Entomologist. 95(2): 454-460. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1653/024.095.0230
SIMO N, J. Y. (2011). The toxicology and biochemistry of insecticides. CRC press. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1201/b11787
WU, S., Z. XING, T. MA, D. XU, Y. LI, Z. LEI and Y. GAO, 2021. Competitive interaction between Frankliniella occidentalis and locally present thrips species: a global review. Journal of Pest Science. 94(1): 5-16. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-020-01290-6
ZHAO, G., W. LIU, J. M. BROWN and C. O. KNOWLES, 1995. Insecticide resistance in field and laboratory strains of western flower thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of Economic Entomology. 88(5): 1164-1170. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/88.5.1164
ZHAO, G., W. LIU and C. O. KNOWLES, 1994. Mechanisms associated with diazinon resistance in western flower thrips. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 49: 13-23. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1006/pest.1994.1038.
 
Applied Entomology and Phytopathology
Volume 93, Issue 2
March 2026
Pages 100-113

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics