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Telenomus remus, a Candidate Parasitoid for the Biological Control of Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa, is already Present on the Continent

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https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10040092
10.3390/insects10040092
 
Title Telenomus remus, a Candidate Parasitoid for the Biological Control of Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa, is already Present on the Continent
 
Creator Kenis, M
du Plessis, H
Van den Berg, J
Ba, M N
Goergen, G
Kwadjo, K
Baoua, I
Tefera, T
Buddie, A
Cafà, G
Offord, L
Rwomushana, I
Polaszek, A
 
Subject Fall Armyworm
Pest Management
Maize
Entomology
African Agriculture
 
Description The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a moth originating from tropical and subtropical America, has recently become a serious pest of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa. Biological control offers an economically and environmentally safer alternative to synthetic insecticides that are being used for the management of this pest. Consequently, various biological control options are being considered, including the introduction of Telenomus remus, the main egg parasitoid of S. frugiperda in the Americas, where it is already used in augmentative biological control programmes. During surveys in South, West, and East Africa, parasitized egg masses of S. frugiperda were collected, and the emerged parasitoids were identified through morphological observations and molecular analyses as T. remus. The presence of T. remus in Africa in at least five countries provides a great opportunity to develop augmentative biological control methods and register the parasitoid against S. frugiperda. Surveys should be carried out throughout Africa to assess the present distribution of T. remus on the continent, and the parasitoid could be re-distributed in the regions where it is absent, following national and international regulations. Classical biological control should focus on the importation of larval parasitoids from the Americas.
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Date 2019-03
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11270/1/insects-10-00092-v2.pdf
Kenis, M and du Plessis, H and Van den Berg, J and Ba, M N and Goergen, G and Kwadjo, K and Baoua, I and Tefera, T and Buddie, A and Cafà, G and Offord, L and Rwomushana, I and Polaszek, A (2019) Telenomus remus, a Candidate Parasitoid for the Biological Control of Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa, is already Present on the Continent. Insects (TSI), 10 (4) (92). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2075-4450