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Appendix B. Abundance of natural enemies captured on sticky traps.
Table B1. Total number of melon aphid natural enemies captured on sticky traps in experimental fields the Lockyer Valley, Australia, during 2009 and 2010 experiments (n = 259 samples).
Order / Family |
Species |
Common name |
Total ind.1 |
Total samples |
% of total |
Spiders |
|
|
|
|
|
Aranae |
|
Spiders |
1100.4 |
226 |
94.9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Insect Predators |
|
|
|
|
|
Neuroptera |
|
|
|
|
|
Hemerobiidae |
Micromus sp. |
Brown Lacewing |
6.9 |
7 |
0.8 |
Coleoptera |
|
|
|
|
|
Coccinellidae |
Diomus notescens |
Two-spotted Ladybird |
7.8 |
7 |
0.8 |
|
Coccinella transversalis |
Transverse Ladybird |
5.3 |
5 |
0.6 |
|
Hippodamia variegata |
White Collared Ladybird |
4.8 |
4 |
0.5 |
|
Harmonia conformis |
Common Spotted Ladybird |
1.7 |
2 |
0.2 |
Melyridae |
Dicranolaius bellulus |
Red and Blue Beetle |
7.9 |
7 |
0.9 |
Hemiptera |
|
|
|
|
|
Anthocoridae |
Orius sp. |
Minute pirate bug |
4.0 |
4 |
0.5 |
Geocoridae |
Geocoris sp. |
Big eye bug |
1.0 |
1 |
0.1 |
Nabidae |
|
Damsel bug |
1.4 |
1 |
0.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parasitoids2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Hymenoptera |
|
|
|
|
|
Braconidae |
Subfamily: Aphidiinidae |
Parasitoids |
6.4 |
5 |
0.6 |
|
|
Total |
1141.2 |
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100 |
1 Decimal number of individuals due to adjusting all capture to a 5-day interval, in order to make comparisons with the second week of the 2009 trial.
2 Since no parasitoids were reared from our aphid sentinel populations, this information was not used in any analysis of natural enemies.