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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Advances in biocontrol of crop insect pests |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge CB22 3HJ UK |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2025 |
Abstract
We show that thrips, aphids, psyllids and whiteflies have complex visual and olfactory sensory systems. Their small size places practical challenges on the ability to undertake host finding research and careful experimental design is necessary to draw sound conclusions.
Potential and actual applications for the use of host finding stimuli for biological control appear to be numerous but would be accelerated with a better understanding of the behavioural responses to visual and olfactory stimuli, how they combine together to enhance host finding and how they can be integrated with other management tactics.
Keywords
- biological control, thrips, host finding, olfaction, vision, miniaturisation
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Advances in biocontrol of crop insect pests. Cambridge CB22 3HJ UK , 2025.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Host Plant Finding in Miniature
T2 - Understanding Vision and Olfaction for Thrips and Other Small Flying Insects to Enhance Biological Control
AU - Teulon, David
AU - Lopez Reyes , Karla
AU - Meyhoefer, Rainer
AU - van Tol, Rob
AU - Nielsen , Mette
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Small, winged insects face challenges in host finding because of their inability to fly upwind and from a reduction in sensory performance due to miniaturisation. For thrips, but also for other small, winged hemipteroids, we examine the sensory systems associated with host finding and how they might be exploited for biological control. Our approach is integrative and comparative. We show that thrips, aphids, psyllids and whiteflies have complex visual and olfactory sensory systems. Their small size places practical challenges on the ability to undertake host finding research and careful experimental design is necessary to draw sound conclusions.Potential and actual applications for the use of host finding stimuli for biological control appear to be numerous but would be accelerated with a better understanding of the behavioural responses to visual and olfactory stimuli, how they combine together to enhance host finding and how they can be integrated with other management tactics.
AB - Small, winged insects face challenges in host finding because of their inability to fly upwind and from a reduction in sensory performance due to miniaturisation. For thrips, but also for other small, winged hemipteroids, we examine the sensory systems associated with host finding and how they might be exploited for biological control. Our approach is integrative and comparative. We show that thrips, aphids, psyllids and whiteflies have complex visual and olfactory sensory systems. Their small size places practical challenges on the ability to undertake host finding research and careful experimental design is necessary to draw sound conclusions.Potential and actual applications for the use of host finding stimuli for biological control appear to be numerous but would be accelerated with a better understanding of the behavioural responses to visual and olfactory stimuli, how they combine together to enhance host finding and how they can be integrated with other management tactics.
KW - biological control
KW - thrips
KW - host finding
KW - olfaction
KW - vision
KW - miniaturisation
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M3 - Contribution to book/anthology
SN - 9781801468398
BT - Advances in biocontrol of crop insect pests
CY - Cambridge CB22 3HJ UK
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