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Control of thrips without pesticides: dream or reality?
Sarah Jandricic, Floriculture Extension Specialist, OMAF and
Graeme Murphy, Grenhouse IPM Specilaist, BioLogical Control Solutions
DAMAGE
~ $15 M
per year in
Georgia
PLANT VIRUSES
Impatiens necrotic spot – severe crop losses
LIFE CYCLE
12 days in hot weather
NON-SUSCEPTIBLE STAGES!
HISTORY OF AREA • Late 1980’s
• Calendar sprays • Weekly in winter
• 2x a week in summer
• Little monitoring, IPM, or Biological control
NOW (i.e. since 2007):
• IPM – standard • Monitoring – routine
• Screening
• Mass trapping
• Biological control – 80-90% of growers
PESTICIDE RESISTANCE - THRIPS • Spinosad – registered in Canada in 2006
• Poor control in 6-12 mo • Pesticide residues on cuttings?
• Widespread breakdown in efficacy by 2008
• 2007: thrips became driver for biocontrol adoption
What tools do we have?
Biocontrol -
Foliage
Amblyseius cucumeris
Biocontrol -
Foliage AMBLYLINE, THRIPEX, etc
What’s in a sachet??
Entomopathogenic Fungi
Biocontrol -
Foliage BotaniGard, Naturalis, etc
Orius insidiosus
Biocontrol -
Foliage Boi-Orius, Thripor, Orius-
System, etc.
NON-PESTICIDE SUSCEPTIBLE STAGES!
NON-PESTICIDE SUSCEPTIBLE STAGES!
Target for
biological
control!
Amblyseius cucumeris
Orius insidiosus
Fungi e.g. BotaniGard
Biocontrol -
Foliage
Biocontrol -
Soil
Hypoaspis mites.
Biocontrol -
Soil
Hypoline-M, Entomite-M,
Hypoaspis
Biocontrol -
Soil Atheta, Rove Beetle,
StaphyLine
Atheta/Dalotia coriaria
Biocontrol -
Soil Entonem, Nemysis
Nematodes: Steinernema feltiae
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Growing media + nematode
Growing media + Plants +nematode
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Nematode
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stops
Application stopped at week 6
Nematodes – Steinernema feltiae
Amblyseius cucumeris Hypoaspis / Stratiolaelaps spp.
Orius insidiosus Nematodes: Steinernema feltiae
Fungi e.g. BotaniGard
Biocontrol -
Foliage
Biocontrol -
Soil
Atheta/Dalotia coriaria
Combining bios so there’s no escape!
Western flower thrips
Mums as a case study: Integrate biocontrol throughout the production system
Research plant risks Choose resistant plants
“Use” susceptible plants Reduce fertilizer
Propagation
Use Mite sachets Microbials Nematodes
Broadcast Cucumeris Microbials Nematodes Hypoaspis
Atheta
Planning Production Finishing
Swirskii sachets Microbials
Amblyseius cucumeris Hypoaspis / Stratiolaelaps spp.
Orius insidiosus Nematodes: Steinernema feltiae
Fungi e.g. BotaniGard
Biocontrol -
Foliage
Companion
Strategies Biocontrol -
Soil
Atheta/Dalotia coriaria
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COMPANION STRATEGIES
1. Trap plants • Flowering yellow mums
• Highly susceptible varieties: Vyron, Chesapeake
• Use with: • Other mum varieties
• Vegetative / foliage crops
• herbs
COMPANION STRATEGIES
2. Mass trapping with sticky tape
• Used in biocontrol programs based on non-flying natural enemies
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–E.g. Pot Mum Production
1 COMPARTMENT= 1500 Feet of Tape
June 1-Aug 15:
= 647, 872 thrips/
compartment removed!
The Power of Sticky Tape!
SEE THE DETAILS: GREENHOUSE CANADA WEBINAR And
GREENHOUSEIPM.ORG
COMPANION STRATEGIES
3. Dipping cuttings – starting clean • Most effective treatments on mums for thrips:
• Beauveria
• Horticultural oil at 5 ml/L for 1 min, then rinsed
SUCCESSFUL BIOCONTROL OF A DIFFICULT PEST • Take whole production system into
account
• Susceptible stages/varieties targeted
• Uses companion strategies to improve results