In the presence of red light,cucumber and possibly other host plants lose their attractability to the melon thrips <Emphasis Type="Italic">Thrips palmi</Emphasis> (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) |
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Authors: | Mika Murata Takahiko Hariyama Yumi Yamahama Mina Toyama Izumi Ohta |
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Institution: | 1.Division of Vegetable Pest Management and Functional Analysis, Institute of Vegetable and Floriculture Science,NARO (NIVFS),Tsu,Japan;2.Hamamatsu University School of Medicine,Hamamatsu,Japan |
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Abstract: | The melon thrips, Thrips palmi Karny (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is a serious agricultural pest of many crops. Previous studies have shown that red light decreases the number of Thrips palmi in greenhouses. In order to understand how red light affects T. palmi, we examined the behavioral responses to host plants that were irradiated with a red light-emitting diode panel (660 nm) in an environment with natural or fluorescent (normal-white) light. When T. palmi were allowed to move freely around in the experimental arena, we found that fewer individuals were attracted to plants irradiated by red light than to plants under normal light illumination. We then used a sticky trap of green coloration to exclude olfactory and visual stimuli associated with the host plants in order to test binary choice behavior in T. palmi. The number of thrips attracted to the green sticky trap irradiated with red light was approximately half of that without red light irradiation. This is the first study to show that an addition of red light can change the behavior of insects, leading to an avoidance of green targets in an environment of normal illumination. |
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