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31 July 2019 Toxicity of Bacterial Isolates on Adults of Zaprionus indianus (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Parasitoids Trichopria anastrephae (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) and Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
Fernanda Carla Santos Geisler, Nicole de Souza Cunha, Liliane Natigal Martins, Daiana da Costa Oliveira, Paloma Stupp, Igor Gustavo de Oliveira, Fábio Pereira Leivas Leite, Flávio Roberto Melo Garcia, Daniel Bernardi
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Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) has demonstrated potential use in insect pest management. We evaluated the toxicity and sublethal effects of formulations of toxic baits composed of bacterial isolates (Bt) B. thuringiensis var. oswaldo cruzi (Bto), B. thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti), B. thuringiensis var. kurstaki (Btk), and B. circulars (Bc) in combination with three food attractants 50% grape juice, 7% sugar cane molasses, and 7% hydrolyzed protein on adults of Zaprionus indianus (Gupta, 1970), the main pest of fig fruit (Ficus carica) in Brazil. Likewise, we evaluated the toxicity on the parasitoids Trichopria anastrephae Lima, 1940 and Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Rondani, 1875) in ingestion bioassays. Adults of Z. indianus showed high susceptibility to Bacterial isolates. However, the Bto isolate (1013 CFU. ml-1) caused adult mortality of 100%, in 72 h after exposure, with LT50 values of ≈20 h. By using the lethal concentrations (LC90) of the Bto isolate, estimated via the concentration–response curves with the food attractants, a significant reduction (40 to 50%) in the total fecundity and in the embryonic viability of eggs from females fed with the toxic baits was observed. The food attractants + Bto (80 × 108 CFU. ml-1) did not cause significant mortality of T. anastrephae and P. vindemmiae adults (mortality < 20%). The bacterial isolates Bti, Btk, Bc, and Bto are considered promising for the formulation of toxic baits, because, besides providing toxic effect on adults of Z. indianus, they showed no toxicity on T. anastrephae and P. vindemmiae adults.

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Fernanda Carla Santos Geisler, Nicole de Souza Cunha, Liliane Natigal Martins, Daiana da Costa Oliveira, Paloma Stupp, Igor Gustavo de Oliveira, Fábio Pereira Leivas Leite, Flávio Roberto Melo Garcia, and Daniel Bernardi "Toxicity of Bacterial Isolates on Adults of Zaprionus indianus (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Parasitoids Trichopria anastrephae (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) and Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 112(6), 2817-2823, (31 July 2019). https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toz218
Received: 13 May 2019; Accepted: 9 July 2019; Published: 31 July 2019
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KEYWORDS
Bacillus thuringiensis
biological control
Drosophilidae
fig fly
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