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Timing and order of different insecticide classes drive control of Drosophila suzukii; a modeling approach

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The spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii Matsumura, is an invasive pest causing significant damage to soft skinned fruits. Control of D. suzukii is critical since there is no tolerance for infested fruit in the market. While most insecticides control one or more D. suzukii life-stages (e.g., egg, larvae, and adult), the impact of insecticides that are toxic to immature stages  is unclear on the subsequent generation of a field population. Insecticides were applied at field recommended rates on cherries and blueberries in the laboratory to determine immature D. suzukii mortality. Spinetoram, cyantraniliprole, malathion, methomyl, spinosad, and phosmet resulted in relatively high mortality of all immature life stages. Zeta-cypermethrin, cyclaniliprole, and fenpropathrin resulted in lower mortality of egg and all larval instars. Malathion was also applied to lowbush blueberries with different fruit sizes (small, medium, and large) in the laboratory and there was no statistical difference in mortality rates depending on fruit sizes. Mortality data from the laboratory experiments were used to parameterize a refined D. suzukii population model. The model revealed that the timing and order of different insecticide classes are important to control D. suzukii population. Model runs that included early applications of more effective insecticides resulted in high immature mortality and greater reduction of D. suzukii populations compared to treatments applied later.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Linda J. Brewer, Danny T. Dalton, Rachele Nieri, Gabriella Boyer, Jessica Buser, Kyoo Park, Briana Elizabeth Price, Rachel Blood, Jeff Antonio Yeo, Ryan David Baily Chave, Marco Valerio Rossi Stacconi, Rachele Nieri, Gabrielle Brind ‘Amour, Karen Wentworth, Shinyoung Park, Abigail Cohen, Ben Johnson, Katherine Spink, Josh Briggs, Amber Bosch, Analise Sala for providing endless help and support during this work. We thank the various insecticide companies for providing product to test in this study. This research was made possible, in part, through support from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch Project Number ME0-21505, the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station. In addition, support was provided by Project GREEN, and the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine. This project was funded in part by Oregon Blueberry Commission, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute for Food and Agriculture Awards #2015-51181-24252, and USDA OREI #2014-51300-22238.

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  1. Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, 4017 Agriculture and Life Sciences Building, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA

    Serhan Mermer, Gabriella Tait & Vaughn M. Walton

  2. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

    Ferdinand Pfab

  3. Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 578 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Rufus Isaacs, Philip D. Fanning, Steven Van Timmeren & Harit Kaur Bal

  4. Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Cornell AgriTech, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 15 Castle Creek Road, Geneva, NY, 14456, USA

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    Lan Xue & Duo Jiang

  9. Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, 1007 Agriculture and Life Sciences Building, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA

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SM, and VMW designed and conducted the experiment for sweet cherry. SM analyzed the data. SM, FP, GT, RI, PF, SVT, AAS, JHH, HKB, FD, EB, JC, GML, SPH, and VMW wrote the manuscript and made final edits. FP provided the modeling simulations, RI, PF, SVT designed and executed the highbush blueberry experiment, AAS, JHH, HKB designed and executed the rabbiteye blueberry experiment, FD, EB, JC designed and executed the lowbush blueberry fruit size experiment. SM, LX and DJ analyze the data statistically. All authors helped and contributed to manuscript editing and formatting for the journal.

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Mermer, S., Pfab, F., Tait, G. et al. Timing and order of different insecticide classes drive control of Drosophila suzukii; a modeling approach. J Pest Sci 94, 743–755 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-020-01292-w

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