Native natural enemies of plant pests in Slovenia with an emphasis on species suitable for mass rearing

Trdan, Stanislav (author), Laznik, Žiga (author), Bohinc, Tanja (author)

In Slovenia, only the native natural enemies of plant pests that are on the EPPO Positive List of biological control agents can be used in agricultural production to control plant pests. The List of native species of organisms for biological control, which is an important part of the Regulations on biological control, currently includes a total of 35 species of beneficial insects and mites and entomopathogenic nematodes. Compared to the number of species on the first list that was established in 2006, the number of beneficial species that Slovenian growers of food and ornamental plants can currently use in everyday practice has doubled. This is the result of intensive professional and research work in the investigation of the occurrence and distribution of natural enemy species in Slovenia, which has been systematically supported by the state for many years. Natural enemy species, which are an integral part of the EPPO Positive List of biological control agents, can be included on the list of native biological control species via a special procedure. However, many natural enemy species that are not yet included on the EPPO Positive List have been identified in the period 2007–2022. In this paper, we list 75 such species and we present 5 candidates (Cotesia glomerata [L.], Diadegma semiclausum [Hellen], Anisopteromalus calandrae [Howard], Neochrysocharis formosa [Westwood] and Kampimodromus aberrans [Oudemans]) that, in our opinion, have high potential as biological controls and will be suitable in the future for mass rearing and use in augmentative biological control.

• Language: English
• Keywords: native natural enemies, plant pests, mass rearing, biological control, EPPO Positive List, candidate
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 12 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 23, iss. 5, art. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-151594
• UDC: 632
• ISSN on article: 1536-2442
• DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iead015
• COBISS.SI-ID: 167970563
• Publication date in RUL: 11.10.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of insect science
• Shortened title: J. insect sci.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Entomological Society of America
• ISSN: 1536-2442
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5131641

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: naravni sovražniki, masovno gojenje, škodljivci rastlin, biotično varstvo, EPPO lista

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection, Professional Tasks from the Field of Plant Protection

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P4-0013
• Name: Hortikultura