WIDESPREAD OF TRICHOGRAMMA EGG PARASITOIDS AMONG MANGROVE FORESTS, AVICENNIA MARINA | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Desert Research | ||
| Article 11, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 2019, Pages 165-173 PDF (546.51 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejdr.2021.18001.1061 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Rahman* 1; Essam Agamy2; Mohammed Fouda3; Usama Abo El-Ghiet1 | ||
| 1Plant Protection Department, Desert Research Center, Matareya, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| 2Economic Entomology and Pesticides Department Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University | ||
| 3Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, 11884 Madinet Nasr, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Avicennia marina is one of the common features of the vegetation of the littoral landscape of Red Sea, Egypt, and considers as protected area with unauthorized use of pesticides. The carob moth Ectomyelois ceratoniae(Family Pyralidae) and the mangrove plumemoth Cenoloba obliteralis(Family Tineodidae) are common herbivores on mangrove forests in Egypt. The present study aimed to search of indigenous Trichogramma spp. within mangrove forests and also to evaluate the distribution of the three Trichogrammaspecies; T. cordubensis,T. bourarachaeandT. cacoeciae through mangrove forests when they were released in mangrove swamps as bio-control agents. In general, releasing parasitoids allowed them to move towards the East and South directions. The distance was 3 meters where most of the released individuals prefer to move to 1 or 5 meters. T.cordubensiswas the highest potent egg parasitoid that has the ability to be released in an inundative manner to combat lepidopteran pests attacking mangrove forests in Egypt. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Trichogramma cordubensis; T. bourarachae and T. cacoeciae; directional and distance distributions; mangrove forests | ||
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