Sex pheromone compounds mediating host specificity in the egg parasitoid Telenomus busseolae Gahan.

PIANTE AROMATICHE E MEDICINALI: L’ ENTOMOCENOSI DEL CAPPERO IN SICILIA

Guilds of herbivore insects of medicinal and aromatic plants are generally composed by poliphagous insects that only occasionally are present at high infestation levels. In this paper the main insect pests observed on Capper spinosa (L.) in Sicily are described. The key pests of this crop are Capparimyia savastani (Martelli) – (Diptera: Tephritidae), Asphondylia gennadii (Marchal) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), and, the painted bug Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Infestations of other insect pests are also occasionally recorded as the case of the southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), in the island of Ustica; the cabbage butterfly, P…

Feromoni sessuali volatili e di contatto che determinano l'accoppiamento in Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae).

Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) fitofago dannoso al cappero nell'isola di Pantelleria