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    The document discusses various insect pests that affect agricultural crops and their corresponding biological control agents. It provides examples of insect pests like cacao mirid bug, banana weevil, diamondback moth, and whiteflies. For each pest, it identifies the relevant biological control agents, which can include parasitoids, predators, entomopathogenic fungi, and other organisms that help suppress pest populations through natural biological mechanisms. The goal of biological control is to utilize these natural enemies to reduce reliance on chemical pesticides for integrated pest management.

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    Biological Control Agents

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    The document discusses various insect pests that affect agricultural crops and their corresponding biological control agents. It provides examples of insect pests like cacao mirid bug, banana weevil, diamondback moth, and whiteflies. For each pest, it identifies the relevant biological control agents, which can include parasitoids, predators, entomopathogenic fungi, and other organisms that help suppress pest populations through natural biological mechanisms. The goal of biological control is to utilize these natural enemies to reduce reliance on chemical pesticides for integrated pest management.

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    Biological Control Agents for Major Insect Pest

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    The document discusses various insect pests that affect agricultural crops and their corresponding biological control agents. It provides examples of insect pests like cacao mirid bug, banana weevil, diamondback moth, and whiteflies. For each pest, it identifies the relevant biological control agents, which can include parasitoids, predators, entomopathogenic fungi, and other organisms that help suppress pest populations through natural biological mechanisms. The goal of biological control is to utilize these natural enemies to reduce reliance on chemical pesticides for integrated pest management.

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    Biological Control Agents

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    Jerson Robles
    The document discusses various insect pests that affect agricultural crops and their corresponding biological control agents. It provides examples of insect pests like cacao mirid bug, banana weevil, diamondback moth, and whiteflies. For each pest, it identifies the relevant biological control agents, which can include parasitoids, predators, entomopathogenic fungi, and other organisms that help suppress pest populations through natural biological mechanisms. The goal of biological control is to utilize these natural enemies to reduce reliance on chemical pesticides for integrated pest management.

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    Southern Philippines Agri-business and

    Marine and Aquatic School of


    Technology
    Biological Control – is the
    suppression of pest by
    utilizing its natural enemies
    and other biological
    organisms.
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Trichogrammatoidea cojuancoi N.
    Egg parasitoid reportedly to be
    Biological Control Agent active in Davao del Sur.
    Conopomorpha Cramerella
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Cacao Mirid Bug Lynx Spider


    (Helopeltis clavifer) (Oxyopes javanus T.)
    Predatory in nature
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari), is Th e fi rst coffee berry borer


    the most devastating insect pest parasitoid reported in the
    of coffee throughout the world. literature was the bethylid
    larvae feed on the coffee seeds Prorops nasuta
    inside the berry, thus reducing
    yield.
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Leucoptera coffeella is
    considered one of the worst pest
    species of coffee.
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Adult mango leafhoppers


    (Idioscopus nagpurensis) are Parasitoids:
    golden-brown, wedge-shaped Polynema spp.,
    insects about 4-5 mm in length.
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    The adult mealy bugs are Predators: Lady Bettle


    covered with whitish powder and (Menochilus sexmaculatus)
    colonize between bark of tree
    trunk, young shoots and panicles
    (Drosicha mangiferae)
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Among the insect pests mango Metarhizium anisopliae is a


    inflorescence hoppers (Idioscopus fungus that grows naturally in
    spp) at flowering is the most soils throughout the world and
    serious.Infestation of the hoppers causes disease in various insects
    cause withering of flowers by acting as a parasitoid
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Banana Wevil (Cosmopolites


    sordidus) is considered to be one Predator :
    of the most serious pests of (Plaesius javanus)
    bananas (Stover and Simmonds,
    1987). The insect can cause
    100% yield loss.
    Insect Pest

    Red rust banana thrips


    (Chaetanaphothrips signipennis) (Isaria fumorosea) is an
    has become a plague and entomopathogenic fungus,
    serious threat to the formerly known as (Paecilomyces
    sustainability of banana fumosoroseus). It shows promise
    production as a biological pesticide with an
    Biological Control Agent extensive host range
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Pentalonia nigronervosa or
    banana aphid can damage
    plants by taking nutrients and Predator :
    water from the plants by feeding
    on their sap, by producing Chilomenes sexmaculatus
    honeydew that attracts dark
    fungi called sooty moulds, and
    by spreading viruses.
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Asiatic Corn Borer larval stage is Predator:


    when the severe damage occurs. Earwig
    It is the longest (up to 30 days) (Euborellia annulata)
    (Ostrinia furnacalis)
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Fall Armyworm (FAW) Females are egg parasitoids


    (Spodoptera frugiperda) is an
    insect pest with wide host range.
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Corn Leaf Aphid (Rhopalosiphum


    maidis) are serious vectors of Predeator:
    several diseases like maize dwarf Aphid lion
    mosaic virus, and maize leaf fleak
    virus (Chrysoperla carnea)
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    (Chilo suppressalis), the Asiatic Scelionid wasp(parasitoid)


    rice borer are largely (Telenomus sp.)
    responsible for the great
    reduction in the rice yield in Asia
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Golden apple snails (Pomacea Red ants feed on the snail eggs
    canaliculata) eat young and (Solenopsis sp.)
    emerging rice plants. They cut
    the rice stem at the base,
    destroying the whole plant.
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Serpentine Leaf Miner (Liriomyza


    huidobrensis). Damage is caused Parasitoid:
    by larval mining in the leaves (Tetrastichus spp)
    and petioles. The photosynthetic
    ability of the plants is often
    greatly reduced as the
    chlorophyll-containing cells are
    destroyed.
    Insect Pest Biological Control Agent

    Diamondback moth (Plutella Diadegma


    xylostella) is one of the most (Diadegmasemiclausum) is one of
    destructive cosmopolitan insect the most succesfull biocon agent
    pests of brassicaceous crops. in controlling DBM.
    Insect Pest

    Whiteflies are small Hemipterans that typically feed on the undersides


    of plant leaves. They comprise the family Aleyrodidae, the only family
    in the superfamily Aleyrodoidea. More than 1550 species have been
    described.

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