Claim · model-written summary
Natural enemies provide some biological control of foliar pests.
- Taxon
- American Jointvetcht0
- Interactor
- Misumenops celer
Mecaphesa celere0biocontrol_agent - Second interactor
- M. bellulus
Misumenops belluluse0biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- biological controle0
Verbatim
e0“Some biological control is provided by the spiders Misumenops celer (Hentz) and M. bellulus (Banks), the parasitic wasp Euplectrus comstockii Howard, and the entomophagous fungus Nomuraea rileyi (Farlow) Samson”
t0“American Jointvetch”
Title
Identification and Control of Foliar Pests of American Jointvetch
R. C. Bullock; A. E. Kretschmer Florida Entomologist 1982. doi:10.2307/3494306
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation American jointvetch is attacked by Selenis monotropa.
- Observation American jointvetch is attacked by Anticarsia gemmitalis.
- Observation American jointvetch is attacked by Heliothis viriscens.
- Observation American jointvetch is attacked by Evippe sp.
- Intervention effect Diflubenzuron yielded the fewest caterpillars and least leafbinding among evaluated insecticides.
- Observation Chlorpyrifos, triflumuron, U-47319 and trichlorfon were less effective than diflubenzuron.
- Association Reducing leafbinding can improve seed production by as much as 350%.