SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Status: Approved

Basic Information

Project No. and Title: NEERA1306 : Management of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Period Covered: 10/01/2014 to 09/30/2015
Date of Report: 01/19/2016
Annual Meeting Dates: 12/02/2015 to 12/02/2015

Participants

Delaware - Joanne Whalon New Jersey - George Hamilton, Anne Nielsen and Cesar Rodriguez-Saona Pennsylvania - Greg Krawczyk Virginia - Thomas Kuhar and Chris Berg

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Attached file:

NEERA-1306-BMSB-2015-Minutes.pdf

Accomplishments

Evaluation of BMSB presence in multifloor, multiunit housing structures
Refinement of BMSB monitoring methods
Correlation of citizen science reports with blacklight monitoring to evaluate BMSB movement and spread
Evaluation of attract and kill strategies
Evaluation of trap crops to manage BMSB
Evaluation of BMSB nymph movement between crops
Refinement of management recommendations for field crop, fruit and vegetable growers

Impacts

Members of this project have been involved in several grants during the course of the multistate project. All members are members of the USDA SCRI grant entitled "Biology, Ecology, and Management of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) in Orchard Crops, Small Fruit, Grapes, Vegetables, and Ornamentals. Due to this, the group is developing a second UDSA SCRI proposal to continue the progress made in the original grant. This grant will end September 30, 2016. Several members have been involved in a USDA OREI project entitled Whole Farm Organic Management of BMSB and Endemic Pentatomids through Behaviorally-Based Habitat Manipulation. This project will also end September 30, 2016. Because of the work done by the participants, conventional and organic growers have a better understanding of how to manage BMSB populations and minimize damage. Initially, a grower’s sole tactic was to spray crops on a calendar basis. This was especially true in tree fruit were growers sprayed one to two times per season. Today, because of the work done by members of the project, growers have methods they can use to monitor crops and as a result have refined their control strategies resulting in reduced insecticide applications. While this is progress is still not an ideal situation. The reliance on insecticides has already resulted in secondary pest outbreaks. Because this, work needs to be continued in order to develop more sustainable management methods.

Aigner, JD and TP Kuhar. 2015. Lethal High Temperature Extremes of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) and Efficacy of Commercial Heat Treatments for Control in Export Shipping Cargo. J. Agric. Urban Entomol. (in press 2015)

Aigner, J.D., T.P. Kuhar, and J. Walgenbach. Relative toxicity and field efficacy of soil-applied neonicotinoids for control of Halyomorpha halys (Stål) in fruiting vegetables. J. Agric. Urban Entomol. (in press 2015)

Aigner, JD, J Wilson, L Nottingham, J Morehead, T Dimeglio, and T Kuhar. 2015. Bioassay evaluation of IKI-3106 (cyclaniliprole) for control of brown marmorated stink bug and harlequin bug, 2014. Arthropod Management Tests 2015 40: (L) (in press)

Bakken, A.J., S.C. Schoof, M. Bickerton, K.L. Kamminga, J.C. Jenrette, S. Malone, M.A. Abney, D. A. Herbert, D. Reisig, T.P. Kuhar, and J.F. Walgenbach. 2015. Occurrence of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on Wild Hosts in Non-Managed Woodlands and Soybean Fields in North Carolina and Virginia. Environmental Entomology. 44(4): 1011–1021 (2015); DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvv092

Basnet, S., T. P. Kuhar, C. A. Laub, and D. G. Pfeiffer. 2015. Seasonality and Distribution Pattern of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Virginia Vineyards. J. Econ. Entomol. 1–8 (2015); DOI: 10.1093/jee/tov124

Cambridge J., A. Payenski and G.C. Hamilton. 2015. The Distribution of Overwintering Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in College Dormitories. Florida Entomologist, 98(4):1257-1259.

Cira, T. M., R. C. Venette, J. Aigner, T. Kuhar, D. M. Mullins, S. E. Gabbert, W. D. Hutchison. Cold tolerance across geographic and temporal scales of brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys (Stål)). Environ. Entomol. (in press 2015)

Herbert D., K. Kamminga, S. Malone, T. Kuhar, E. Day, J. Greene, S. Bundy, L. Brown, P. Ellsworth. 2nd Edition Field Guide to Stink Bugs of Agricultural Importance in the United States. 2015. Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center. Virginia Cooperative Extension Pub. No. VT/0914/444356/ENTO-68.

Joseph, S.V., M. Nita, T.C. Leskey, and J.C.Bergh. 2015. Temporal effects on the incidence and severity of brown marmorated stink bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) feeding injury to peaches and apples during the fruiting period in Virginia. J. Econ. Entomol. 108: 592-599

Kuhar, T., A. Morehead, and T. Dimeglio. 2015. Diagnosing stink bug injury to vegetables. Virginia coop. Ext. Pub. No. ENTO-173NP. Online publication. https://pubs.ext.vt.edu/ENTO/ENTO-173/ENTO-173.html

Kuhar, T., R. Morrison, T. Leskey, J. Aigner, G. Dively, E. Zobel, G. Brust, J. Whalen, W. Cissel, J. Walgenbach, K. Rice, S. Fleischer, and S. Rondon. 2015. Brown Marmorated Stink Bug in Vegetables: A synopsis of what researchers have learned so far and management recommendations using an integrated approach. Northeast IPM Center extension bulletin. http://stopbmsb.org

Kuhar, T. P., H. Doughty, C. Philips, J. Aigner, L. Nottingham, and J. Wilson. 2014. Evaluation of foliar insecticides for the control of foliar insects in bell peppers in Virginia, 2013. Arthropod Management Tests 2014 39 (1): E19 doi: 10.4182/amt.2014.E19 http://amt.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/1/E19

Leskey, T.C., A. Agnello, J. C. Bergh, G. P. Dively, G. C. Hamilton, P. Jentsch, A. Khrimian, G. Krawczyk, T. P. Kuhar; D. Lee, W. R. Morrison III, D. F. Polk, C. Rodriguez-Saona, P. W. Shearer, B. D. Short, P. M. Shrewsbury, J. F. Walgenbach; D. C. Weber, C. Welty, J. Whalen, N. Wiman and F. Zaman. 2015. Attraction of the Invasive Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) to Traps Baited with Semiochemicals Stimuli across the United States. Environ. Ent. 2015; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvv049 746-756

Morehead, J, J Aigner, J Wilson, L Nottingham, T Dimeglio, and T Kuhar. 2015. Efficacy of organic inseticides for control of brown marmorated stink bug on peppers in Virginia, 2014. Arthropod Management Tests 2015 40: (E) (in press)

Wilson, J, J Aigner, L Nottingham, and T Kuhar. 2015. Bioassay evaluation of sulfoxaflor for control of harlequin bug, brown marmorated stink bug and kudzu bug, 2013. Arthropod Management Tests 2015 40: (L) (in press)

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