Claim · model-written summary
A. abdominalis parasitized 39% of lettuce aphids within 24 hours.
- Taxon
- Lettuce
Lactuca sativat0 - Interactor
- N. ribisnigri
Nasonovia ribisnigrie0pest - Second interactor
- A. abdominalisAphelinus abdominalise0biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- parasitizede0
- Value
- 39e0
- Qualifier
- 24-h exposure periode0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageTreatmentComparatorSettingDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.


Verbatim
e0“A. abdominalis successfully parasitized 39 and 13% of the offered N. ribisnigri and M. persicae, respectively, within a 24-h exposure period”
t0“Lettuce”
Title
G. Shrestha; H. Skovgård; A. Enkegaard Environmental Entomology 2014. doi:10.1603/en14068
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Observation A. abdominalis parasitized 13% of green peach aphids within 24 hours.
- Observation Ap. colemani did not successfully parasitize lettuce aphids.
- Observation L. testaceipes did not successfully parasitize lettuce aphids.
- Observation Ap. colemani parasitized 60% of M. persicae within six hours.
- Observation L. testaceipes parasitized 3.5% of M. persicae within six hours.
- Observation Incomplete parasitization by Ap. colemani killed 26% of lettuce aphids.
- Observation Incomplete parasitization by L. testaceipes killed 31% of lettuce aphids.
- Observation Incomplete parasitization by Ap. colemani killed 5% of M. persicae.
- Observation Incomplete parasitization by L. testaceipes killed 10% of M. persicae.
- Observation Incomplete parasitization mortality with A. abdominalis was low for both aphids.
- Observation A. abdominalis caused 51% total mortality in lettuce aphids within 24 hours.
- Observation A. abdominalis caused 19% total mortality in green peach aphids, significantly less than in lettuce aphids.
- Observation Ap. colemani caused higher mortality in M. persicae, 65%, than in N. ribisnigri.
- Observation L. testaceipes caused greater mortality in N. ribisnigri than M. persicae.
- Recommendation The authors propose A. abdominalis for inoculative control of N. ribisnigri.