Key agronomic and ecological factors impacting moth borers populations and their natural enemies in the context of sugarcane expansion and intensification. : S1012TU02 Integrated Pest Management

Goebel François-Régis. 2012. Key agronomic and ecological factors impacting moth borers populations and their natural enemies in the context of sugarcane expansion and intensification. : S1012TU02 Integrated Pest Management. In : XXIV International Congress of Entomology (ICE 2012), Daegu, Korea, August 19-25, 2012. s.l. : s.n., Résumé, 1 p. International Congress of Entomology. 24, Daegu, Corée du Sud, 19 Août 2012/25 Août 2012.

Résumé : Global intensification and expansion of agricultural areas for more food and energy products is expected to change pest-plant interactions and the related ecosystem services. For example, intensification of agronomic practices, land use change, landscape fragmentation, incorporation of crop genetic improvements and altered harvest regimes lead to predictable shifts in pest and beneficial natural enemy communities in new sugarcane areas. This is particularly the case in the developing countries where natural vegetation patches are rapidly converted into agricultural land. In this context, the risk of biodiversity loss associated with pest outbreaks is often mentioned. Through different experiences in several sugarcane producing countries, it is shown how over application of fertilizers, water stress, misuse of insecticides, harvest delay, trash blanketing cane burning, use of susceptible varieties, Silicon deficient soils can dramatically increased infestation from major moth borers such as Eldana saccharina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and Chilo sacchariphagus (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) with sometimes severe yield losses. This situation is often exacerbated by the lack of natural enemies, particularly in large-scale monoculture systems where natural vegetation has been cleared. The impact of such factors on arthropod communities should be carefully analyzed and incorporated in a new ecologically-based pest management approach at a landscape scale. This calls for increased scientific understanding of landscape effects on spatial crop?pest?natural enemy interactions and their ecosystem services such as biocontrol in the sugarcane areas.

Classification Agris : H10 - Ravageurs des plantes
F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture

Auteurs et affiliations

• Goebel François-Régis, CIRAD-PERSYST-UPR SCA (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-5438-1078

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