Papers by Cristina Bastos
DECEMBER 2019
We determined the susceptibility of vegetative corn stages to Dichelops melacanthus damage, and h... more We determined the susceptibility of vegetative corn stages to Dichelops melacanthus damage, and how seed treatment can reduce damage and yield loss. Two field trials were carried out. In the first, corn plants were artificially infested with D. melacanthus male/female pairs at rate of 0.5 pair per plant at different vegetative stages and infestation periods lasting 7-28 days (V1-V3, V1-V5, V1-V7, V1-V9, V3-V5, V3-V7, V3-V9, V5-V7, V5-V9, and V7-V9), plus a control without infestation. In the second, corn plants were artificially infested at a rate of one male/female pair per plant at different vegetative stages and infestation periods (V1-V3, V1-V5, V1-V7, V3-V5, V3-V7 and V5-V7) and treated with two pesticide seed coatings: (i) fungicide [carbendazim + thiram (150 g i.a. per L and 350 g i.a. per L)] + insecticide [clothianidin (600 g i.a. per L)] or (ii) only fungicide (carbendazim + thiram), plus three controls without infestation and with only fungicide-treatment (V1-V7, V3-V7 an...
Pest Management Science, 2022
BACKGROUNDKnowledge of the spatio‐temporal distribution of pests is important for the development... more BACKGROUNDKnowledge of the spatio‐temporal distribution of pests is important for the development of accurate management approaches. The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boh., is a deleterious cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., pest in the western hemisphere. The spread of boll weevils across cotton fields remains poorly understood. We assessed the dispersal pattern of adult weevils through cotton fields cultivated in a tropical area during dry and wet seasons using geostatistics for the number of adults and infested reproductive structures (buds, bolls and total).RESULTSAdult weevils and infested reproductive structures increased across both seasons despite the prevailing climatic variables. In both seasons, boll weevil adults and infested reproductive structures followed an aggregated distribution. The distances over which samples maintained spatial dependence varied from 0.7 to 43.4 m in the dry season and from 6.0 to 614.4 m in the wet season. Boll weevil infestations started...
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Australian Journal of Crop Science, 2017
During storage, beans can be infested with many insect-pests including Zabrotes subfasciatus, a k... more During storage, beans can be infested with many insect-pests including Zabrotes subfasciatus, a key pest of these crops. This study aimed to identify bean genotypes demonstrating antixenosis and/or antibiosis to Z. subfasciatus and to test their integration with chemical control. The ultimate goal of assessment was to distinguish whether genotypic and insecticidal factors can provide effective beetle control. The tested genotypes were (a) Phaseolus vulgaris group: CCB, BSCB, BCB and PCB; (b) Vicia faba group: YBB, WBB and SBB; and (c) Vigna unguiculata group: C and GC. Initial assays were run to select genotypes (without insecticide treatment) that would be further tested with insecticides. Final assays included genotypes with varying degree of antibiosis and antixenosis treated with a neem formulation (Natuneem®) and distilled water (control) plus deltamethrin (Decis®) which latter was used only in the final antibiosis assay. The insecticides were used at the rates of 3 and 0.1 mL of Natuneem® and Decis®, respectively, per 30 mL of distilled water. There were no differences in preference of Z. subfasciatus adults among non-treated genotypes (initial assays), although neem-treated genotypes altered the preference and reduced infestation from 40.54-100% (final assays). In antibiosis tests, oviposition and density of emerged adults were reduced among C and SBB, and SBB also reduced the weight of emerged adults. Insecticides reduced oviposition in 53-100% and yielded half to five-fold fewer emerging insects weighting 35%-40% less in antibiotic genotypes. SBB was the most antibiotic genotype and this and other genotypes possessing antibiosis had a synergistic effect with neem or deltamethrin.
Journal of Agricultural Science, 2019
The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is one of the ke... more The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is one of the key pests and limiting factors to cotton production in conventional and organic systems. We assessed the use of resistant and susceptible cotton cultivars, a neem-based insecticide (Natuneem), and trapping with an A. grandis grandis aggregation pheromone as possible control tactics. In the first of two growing seasons we evaluated resistance of colored fiber cotton cultivars BRS 200, BRS Rubi, BRS Safira, and BRS Verde, and white fiber cotton BRS Aroeira, against A. grandis grandis attack. In the second growing season we assessed three colored cotton cultivars grown in and without close association of BRS Aroeira, and two control tactics: the neem-based pesticide and trapping. Because BRS Aroeira showed resistance against A. grandis grandis in the first growing season, it was selected to be planted in close association with more susceptible colored cultivars in the second growing season. F...
Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 2017
Maize is attacked by various pest species, including the key-pest of stored maize, Sitophilus zea... more Maize is attacked by various pest species, including the key-pest of stored maize, Sitophilus zeamais (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). This study determined the LC50 and LD50 of neem-based insecticides (AzaMax® and Natuneem®) in comparison to a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide (Decis® 25 CE) to S. zeamais. The bioassays consisted of insects’ exposure alone (topical application with microsyringe) and exposure of both insects and seeds treated simultaneously. The final bioassays used four to six concentrations of each formulation per bioassay, diluted in distilled water. The bioassays were run with the use of 10 non-sexed adults of S. zeamais per replication and mortality was assessed after 48 h of exposure. The data regarding concentration and dose-mortality were analyzed by probit analysis. Both LC50 and LD50 were used to calculate LCR and LDR’s and their respective confidence interval (CI). After using topical application, the bioassays yielded LD50-values of 51.32, 76.76 and 42.75 μL ...
Journal of Applied Entomology, 2019
A standardized sampling plan is the starting point for developing a decision‐making system for pe... more A standardized sampling plan is the starting point for developing a decision‐making system for pest control. Aphis gossypii (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a destructive sap‐feeding pest on cotton worldwide. However, research addressing cotton cultivar, plant phenology and field size with the aim of developing a sampling plan for A. gossypii has not been done. Therefore, in this study, we developed a standardized sampling for A. gossypii as a function of these factors. To accomplish this, A. gossypii densities in four experimental cotton cultivars were sampled weekly during year one to determine the ideal aphid characteristic to sample (by individual or colony). During year one and two, A. gossypii densities were sampled weekly in the same cultivars to determine sampling unit, sampling technique and the number of samples for an A. gossypii sampling plan. Using the sample number determined, the sampling time was recorded for cotton field size of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 150 ha in order to est...
Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy
The cotton producers from southern Mato Grosso are currently experiencing control failure with th... more The cotton producers from southern Mato Grosso are currently experiencing control failure with the use of the use of insecticides against the cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis Boheman, the main pest species of this commodity. Therefore, the present study was designed to survey insecticide resistance and the associated likelihood of control failure among boll weevil populations in the region. Ten insect populations were sampled during the 2016/2017 season and subjected to time-mortality (contact) bioassays in glass vials impregnated with dried insecticide residues at their respective label rates. The three insecticides most frequently used in the region were surveyed: the organophosphate malathion and the pyrethroids beta-cyfluthrin and zeta-cypermethrin. The survival curves showed estimates of the respective median survival time (LT50) for each combination of insecticide and insect copulation. However, there were no significant differences in susceptibility among populations. Th...
Journal of Pest Science, 2016
Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=253020206001 ... Redalyc Scien... more Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=253020206001 ... Redalyc Scientific Information System Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and ... Akiyoshi Suinaga, Fábio; Schetino Bastos, Cristina; Pacifici ...
As plantas de café são atacadas por grande número de insetos-pragas que conduzem à adoção de táti... more As plantas de café são atacadas por grande número de insetos-pragas que conduzem à adoção de táticas de controle. O controle químico é a tática mais usada e difundida, devido a seu efeito rápido. O Aldicarbe está entre os inseticidas mais usados devido a seus ...
Revista Brasileira De Oleaginosas E Fibrosas, 2006
... Segundo Gerson (1992), esta espécie pode completar sua geração em uma semana sob condições ót... more ... Segundo Gerson (1992), esta espécie pode completar sua geração em uma semana sob condições ótimas (25 ºC e alta umidade relativa do ar) e ... que a duração deste período foi de 3,7 dias para fêmeas e 3,6 dias para machos, quando alimentados com limão siciliano. ...
Revista Brasileira De Oleaginosas E Fibrosas, 2006
RESUMO: A simples presença de uma determinada praga em uma cultura não deve governar a tomada de ... more RESUMO: A simples presença de uma determinada praga em uma cultura não deve governar a tomada de decisão de controle da mesma. Ao contrário, esta decisão consiste em um dos pontos chave do Manejo Integrado de Pragas, ou seja, controlar a praga se a mesma poderá causar prejuízo econômico à lavoura. Entretanto, para que a tomada de decisão de controle
Neotropical entomology
The mealybug Planococcus minor Maskell is a significant pest of more than 250 cultivated plants b... more The mealybug Planococcus minor Maskell is a significant pest of more than 250 cultivated plants belonging to at least 80 families. Among the host plants several Malvaceae species are attacked, including the genera Gossypium. In 2005 and 2006 the mealybug P. minor was observed infesting cotton fields in the arid area of northeast region of Brazil. The occurrence was registered in high densities and in several farms resulting in mortality of plants in some cases. This species is not cited as a cotton pest in any region of Brazil where cotton grows, although it is enlisted in the Global Pest and Disease Database. Hence, there is a lack of studies what makes this pest of great deal to control.
Ciência Rural, 2003
Este trabalho foi conduzido em Coimbra, MG, no ano agrícola 1996/97 e objetivou avaliar a ocorrên... more Este trabalho foi conduzido em Coimbra, MG, no ano agrícola 1996/97 e objetivou avaliar a ocorrência de insetos fitófagos e de predadores no milho e no feijoeiro cultivados em sistema exclusivo e em policultivo. Foi realizado um cultivo de milho (25/10/1996 a 24/03/1997) e dois cultivos de feijão[o primeiro de 25/10/1996 a 20/01/1997 (cultivo "das águas") e o segundo de 25/03/1997 a 21/07/1997 (cultivo "da seca")]. Realizaram-se contagens diretas das populações de insetos fitófagos e de predadores nas culturas. Menores densidades populacionais de herbívoros considerados preferenciais da cultura do milho [Dalbulus maidis (Delong & Wolcott) (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) e Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)] e do feijoeiro [Diabrotica speciosa (Germ.), Cerotoma arcuata (Oliv.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) e Empoasca kraemeri (Ross & Moore) (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)] estiveram associadas ao cultivo consorciado. As densidades de herbívoros generalistas ...
Insects, 2014
Because boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh. develops partially protected inside cotton fruiting ... more Because boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh. develops partially protected inside cotton fruiting structures, once they become established in a field, they are difficult to control, even with nearly continuous insecticide spray. During two cotton-growing seasons in the Semiárido region of Pernambuco State, Brazil, we tested the use of kaolin sprays to disrupt plant colonization through visual cue interference, combined with removal of fallen fruiting bodies to restrain boll weevil population growth after colonization. Kaolin spray under non-choice trials resulted in 2.2×, 4.4×, and 8.6× fewer weevils, oviposition and feeding punctures on kaolin-treated plants, respectively, despite demonstrating no statistical differences for colonization and population growth. Early season sprays in 2010 occurred during a period of rainfall, and hence, under our fixed spraying schedule no significant differences in boll weevil colonization were detected. In 2011, when kaolin sprays were not washed out by rain, delayed boll weevil colonization and reduction on attacked fruiting bodies were observed in eight out of 12 evaluations, and kaolin-treated plots had 2.7× fewer damaged fruiting bodies compared to untreated plots.
Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 1997
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