Establishment of Chilocorus spp. (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae) in a Carica papaya L. orchard infested by Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead) (Hemiptera :Diaspididae)
Rj. Elder et Kl. Bell, Establishment of Chilocorus spp. (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae) in a Carica papaya L. orchard infested by Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead) (Hemiptera :Diaspididae), AUST J ENT, 37, 1998, pp. 362-365
Releases of two coccinellid predators, (Chilocorus baileyi (Blackburn) and
Chilocorus circumdatus Gyllenhal, of oriental scale (Aonidiella orientalis)
onto papaya resulted in successful establishment of the predators with a n
ew generation being produced. Both coccinellids took 5 weeks from egg to ad
ult in the field. Use of the coccinellids offers a potential control method
for this scale on the few occasions when the established parasitoids fail
to control the scale and scale numbers become large on limited numbers of p
apaya trees.