SEASONAL FLUCTUATION OF STINK BUG MUSTHA SPINULOSA (LEFEBVRE, 1831) (HEMIPTERA, PENTATOMIDAE) ON SOME TREES IN ERBIL CITY

Q4 Earth and Planetary Sciences

Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI:10.26842/binhm.7.2020.16.2.0151

S. Muhammed

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Phytophagous stink bugs (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) are economically important insect pests of fruit, vegetable, nut and field crops. This study was carried out during the season of 2013 in orchards within Erbil city, to follow the stink bug Mustha spinulosa (Lefebvre, 1831) seasonal fluctuation on some fruit trees: olive, plum, apricot, pear, apple and almond. The stink bug reaches its maximum abundance throughout the second week of August (38.2/tree) coinciding with mean temperature and relative humidity of 33.40°C and 28.14% respectively, and the highest total mean of the number of the insect was recorded on the olive trees (181.8/tree). The study reveals that the stink bug attacked 22 trees (fruit and forest) while it has not attack any herbal plant.

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埃尔比勒市部分树木上臭虫(半翅目，五蝽科)的季节消长

植食性臭虫(半翅目，蝽科)是危害水果、蔬菜、坚果和大田作物的重要经济害虫。本研究于2013年季节在埃尔比勒市的果园进行，跟踪臭虫Mustha spinulosa (Lefebvre, 1831)在一些果树上的季节性波动:橄榄树、李子树、杏树、梨树、苹果树和杏仁树。在8月第2周，臭虫数量最多(38.2只/棵)，平均气温和相对湿度分别为33.40°C和28.14%，总平均数量最多的是橄榄树(181.8只/棵)。研究表明，臭虫攻击了22棵树(水果和森林)，而没有攻击任何草本植物。

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Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum Environmental Science-Ecology

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