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Atoosa Nikoukar, Pooria Ensafi, E. Lewis, D. Crowder, A. Rashed
Journal of Economic Entomology, 2021
Journal of Economic Entomology, 2021
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Nikoukar, A., Ensafi, P., Lewis, E., Crowder, D., & Rashed, A. (2021). Efficacy of Naturally Occurring and Commercial Entomopathogenic Nematodes Against Sugar Beet Wireworm (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Journal of Economic Entomology.
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Nikoukar, Atoosa, Pooria Ensafi, E. Lewis, D. Crowder, and A. Rashed. “Efficacy of Naturally Occurring and Commercial Entomopathogenic Nematodes Against Sugar Beet Wireworm (Coleoptera: Elateridae).” Journal of Economic Entomology (2021).
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Nikoukar, Atoosa, et al. “Efficacy of Naturally Occurring and Commercial Entomopathogenic Nematodes Against Sugar Beet Wireworm (Coleoptera: Elateridae).” Journal of Economic Entomology, 2021.
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@article{atoosa2021a,
title = {Efficacy of Naturally Occurring and Commercial Entomopathogenic Nematodes Against Sugar Beet Wireworm (Coleoptera: Elateridae)},
year = {2021},
journal = {Journal of Economic Entomology},
author = {Nikoukar, Atoosa and Ensafi, Pooria and Lewis, E. and Crowder, D. and Rashed, A.}
}
Abstract
Abstract Wireworms are the larval stage of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae), and some of their species are serious pests of many crops. In the present study, we evaluated the efficacy of naturally occurring and commercial entomopathogenic nematode species against the sugar beet wireworm, Limonius californicus (Mannerheim), in the laboratory. First, efficacies of Steinernema feltiae (Filipjev) (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) collected from an irrigated (S. feltiae-SSK) and a dryland (S. feltiae-SSC) field and the two commercial entomopathogenic nematode species, S. carpocapsae (Weiser) (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar (Rhabditida: Heterorhabditidae), were examined. Efficacies of the two field-collected S. feltiae isolates were also compared against a commercial S. feltiae strain. In the first bioassay, S. feltiae-SSK caused 63.3% wireworm mortality, followed by 30% caused by S. carpocapsae, 23.3% by S. feltiae-SSC, and 6.7% by H.bacteriophora. In the second assay, S. feltiae-SSK killed 56.7% of the wireworms, ≈2.1- and ≈5.7-fold higher than S. feltiae-SSC and the commercial isolate, respectively.
