Abstract Manipulating phytophagous insects with light-based repelling techniques has shown its potential to be a useful tool in integrated pest management systems the future. Underlying optical mechanisms can applied field and protected cultivation, reflecting materials or emitting light sources, such as LEDs. Many are characterised by their cryptic lifestyle avoid intervening protection measur...

The efficiency of an autodissemination technique in controlling adult whiteflies, Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on tomato, Solunum lycopersicum was investigated with previously identified potent fungal isolates Metarhizium anisopliae ICIPE 18, 62 and 69 under screenhouse or semi-field conditions. device inoculated dry conidia the M. isolates, while control insects ...