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Research Project: Biological Control for Management of Invasive Pest Management, Emphasizing Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Spotted Wing Drosophila and other Invasive Insect Pests of Crops

Location: Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit

Title: Tri-trophic invasive species systems: prospective analysis of the biological control of the brown marmorated stinkbug (Halyomorpha halys (Stål) under extant and climate change weather

Author
item GUTIERREZ, ANDREW - University Of California Berkeley
item SABBATINI PEVERIERI, GIUSEPPINO - Crea
item PONTI, LUIGI - Enea Casaccia Research Center
item GIOVANNINI, LUCREZIA - Crea
item ROVERSI, PIO FEDERICO - Crea
item MELE, ALBERTO - University Of Padua
item POZZEBON, ALBERTO - University Of Padua
item SCACCINI, DAVID - University Of Padua
item Hoelmer, Kim

Submitted to: Global Change Biology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/2/2023
Publication Date: 4/3/2023
Citation: Gutierrez, A.P., Sabbatini Peverieri, G., Ponti, L., Giovannini, L., Roversi, P., Mele, A., Pozzebon, A., Scaccini, D., Hoelmer, K.A. 2023. Tri-trophic invasive species systems: prospective analysis of the biological control of the brown marmorated stinkbug (Halyomorpha halys (Stål) under extant and climate change weather. Global Change Biology. 96:921–942. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-023-01610-y.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-023-01610-y

Interpretive Summary: Efforts to control the invasive Asian brown marmorated stinkbug (BMSB) by introducing or redistributing two Asian egg parasitoids (Trissolcus japonicus and T. mitsukurii) are ongoing in Europe and North America. We developed a demographic model of the BMSB system that includes its natural enemies. The goal was to explore climate and biological interactions and their effects on the control of BMSB. The model results suggest that additive activity of multiple natural enemies would provide good suppression and control regionally.

Technical Abstract: Efforts to control the exotic Asian brown marmorated stinkbug (H. halys , BMSB ) by introducing/redistributing two stenophagus scelionid egg parasitoids (Trissolcus japonicus and T. mitsukurii) are ongoing in the European-Mediterranean Basin and North America. We developed a weather driven physiologically based demographic model of the tri trophic BMSB system of two egg parasitoids and the oligophagus pteromalid Asian hyperparasitoid Acroclisoides sinicus. Simple density dependent models for effects of the ubiquitous tachinid fly Trichopoda pennipes that parasitizes adult hemipteran and for other native parasitoids and predators as a group that attacks eggs and nymphs were included. The goal was to explore the weather driven biological interaction and their prospective effects on the control of BMSB across large regions. The focus was on the search capacity of the egg parasitoids and the effects of the hyperparasitoid on the biological control of BMSB. An ancillary objective was to estimate the additional potential impact of T. pennipes and native natural enemies. The results suggest that good searching capacity of the primary parasitoids would provide good suppression and control regionally, but the requisite rates of parasitism are not observed in the field. Field observations and data, suggest that attack rate of the hyperparasitoid A sinicus is low, suggesting a low effective search rate despite high laboratory preference for T. mitsukurii. The model indicates that the action of T. japonicus would be greater than that of T. mitsukurii, but that joint interactions of the two egg parasitoids given low hyper parasitism would provide higher mortality of BMSB across the Palearctic region. The model suggests that the tachinid parasitoids of BMSB adults can have an important additive role in controlling BMSB. Results for North America are reported as supplemental materials.