Abstract
AbstractDasineura oleae (Angelini, 1831) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), the olive leaf gall midge, is a pest of olive crops that was not problematic in Italy until 2016 when a massive infestation of this pest was reported in a small region in central Italy. We identified infested olive orchards using farmers’ reports and quantified the pest infestation level and parasitism rate in each field. We also explored the effect of the landscape on both the pest and parasitoids using the abundance of olive crops and semi-natural habitats and the Shannon index, estimated at four different scales (250 m, 500 m, 750 m and 1000 m buffers around the sampling points). The results showed a small-scale effect on the parasitism rate and a large-scale effect on leaf infestation mediated by the Shannon Index. Moreover, some preliminary results showed that the parasitism rate was high in sites where plants associated with D. oleae parasitoids were present in the adjacent semi-natural habitat. Further studies are needed to validate our findings on the effect of landscape and vegetation on the natural enemies of D. oleae in order to develop new suppression strategies.
Funder
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Insect Science,Plant Science
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