Claim · model-written summary
Mealybug destroyers suppressed egg numbers by 93% in whole-plant cages.
- Treatment
- predatorse1
- Interactor
- Diaphorina citri
Diaphorina citrie0pest - Second interactor
- mealybug destroyerse4biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- egg suppressione4
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede4
- Value
- 93%e4
- Setting
- whole-plant cage conditionse4
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Asian citrus psyllids Diaphorina citri Kuwayama”
e1“We evaluated 4 commercially available predators for their predation on ACP eggs”
e4“In whole-plant cage conditions, lacewings and mealybug destroyers provided 97% and 93% egg suppression, respectively, while O. insidiosus reduced egg density by 73%”
Title
Romain Exilien; Jawwad A Qureshi; Xavier Martini Journal of Economic Entomology 2026. doi:10.1093/jee/toag059
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect All predators except Amblyseius swirskii significantly reduced Asian citrus psyllid egg numbers on citrus shoots.
- Intervention effect Lacewings suppressed Asian citrus psyllid eggs by 94% in the laboratory.
- Intervention effect Mealybug destroyers suppressed Asian citrus psyllid eggs by 76% in the laboratory.
- Intervention effect Minute pirate bugs suppressed Asian citrus psyllid eggs by 68% in the laboratory.
- Intervention effect Lacewings reduced Asian citrus psyllid egg suppression by 97% in whole-plant cages.
- Intervention effect Orius insidiosus reduced egg density by 73% in whole-plant cages.
- Observation Cryptolaemus montrouzieri and Chrysoperla rufilabris each consumed more than 100 eggs per exposure period.
- Observation Orius insidiosus consumed on average 65 eggs.
- Recommendation Targeting ACP eggs with lacewings or mealybug destroyers may substantially enhance sustainable psyllid management in citrus.