Study of insect pests and natural enemies on sticky traps in organic lettuce fields

Abstract

The results of sticky insect traps showed that chili thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis) was the most abundance and followed by cowpea aphids (Aphis craccivora). These thrips and aphids were most found on blue and yellow sticky traps, respectively. Whereas the survey of insect natural enemies on sticky traps presented that wasp in the family Pteromalidae as well as Mymaridae and Figitidae and short-winged beetles in the family Staphylinidae were found. Those insects were mostly found on yellow sticky traps, followed by red and black sticky traps, respectively.