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Exploring the potential for the selective breeding of Nesidiocoris Tenuis: A study of its genetics and feeding behavior
Universitat Jaume I (2021-04-23)Nesidiocoris tenuis is a zoophytopbagous insect used in tomato crops to control key pests. Its ability to foed on plant tissues gives it the advantages to be able to establish in the crops before the arrival afthe pest, ... -
Intraguild predation and competitive displacement between Nesidiocoris tenuis and Dicyphus maroccanus, 2 biological control agents in tomato pests
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016-07)Dicyphus maroccanus Wagner and Nesidiocoris tenuis Reuter (Hemiptera: Miridae) are 2 biological control agents in tomatoes. Through the crop seasons, a natural shift in the occurrence of both mirids in favor of N. tenuis ... -
Plant feeding by Nesidiocoris tenuis: Quantifying its behavioral and mechanical components
Elsevier (2021-01)Zoophytophagous predators play an important, though sometimes controversial, role in pest management programs in different crops. In tomato crops, damage caused by phytophagy of the mirid Nesidiocoris tenuis has mainly ... -
Sugars as complementary alternative food for the establishment of Nesidiocoris tenuis in greenhouse tomato
Copyright © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved (2014-07)Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Miridae) is an omnivorous generalist predator which is augmentatively released and conserved for control of whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: ... -
Tomato plant responses to feeding behavior of three zoophytophagous predators (Hemiptera: Miridae)
Elsevier (2015-07)Plant responses induced by zoophytophagous plant bugs (Miridae) have not been thoroughly studied. Here, we show that three different zoophytophagous predators (Nesidiocoris tenuis, Macrolophus pygmaeus and Dicyphus maroccanus) ...