Biological Control as Part of the Soybean Integrated Pest Management (IPM): Potential and Challenges

Soybean production is usually performed on large scales, requiring simple but efficient pest management to be successful. Soybean fields are inhabited by several species of arthropods, demanding constant development of management practices to prevent pest outbreaks. More recently, stink bugs have be...

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Published in:Agronomy (Basel) 2023-10, Vol.13 (10), p.2532
Main Authors: Bueno, Adeney de F., Sutil, Weidson P., Jahnke, Simone M., Carvalho, Geraldo A., Cingolani, Maria Fernanda, Colmenarez, Yelitza C., Corniani, Natália
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural management
Agricultural practices
Agriculture
Arthropods
Biodiversity
Biological control
Conservation
Crop production
Crops
Cultivars
Economic incentives
Economics
Eggs
Health aspects
hymenoptera
insecticide mitigation
Insecticide resistance
insecticide selectivity
Insecticides
Integrated pest management
Landscape architecture
Natural enemies
Pentatomidae
Pest control
Pest outbreaks
Pesticides
Pests
Physiology
preservation
Scelionidae
Soybean
Soybeans
Stink bugs
sustainability
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Summary:Soybean production is usually performed on large scales, requiring simple but efficient pest management to be successful. Soybean fields are inhabited by several species of arthropods, demanding constant development of management practices to prevent pest outbreaks. More recently, stink bugs have become the most important pest group of soybeans in the Neotropics, responsible for up to 60% of the applied insecticides in Brazil. Natural enemies represent an important mortality factor that can keep the damage caused by stink bugs below the economic threshold levels without additional control actions. Thus, Conservation Biological Control (CBC) strategies can be adopted to preserve or even promote the increase in such natural enemies in the fields, or alternatively, massive releases of biocontrol agents in Augmentative Biological Control (ABC) programs could be adopted. Simple practices such as reducing insecticide use (with the adoption of economic thresholds), prioritizing harmless insecticides or biopesticides, and planting resistant soybean cultivars have been adopted in Brazil with positive results. The challenges to increasing the adoption of more complex stink bug management in commodity crops such as soybean may be overcome using the more recent economic incentives in the global agenda of decarbonized agriculture. The potential and challenges of conservation and augmentative biological control are further discussed in this review.
ISSN:2073-4395
2073-4395
DOI:10.3390/agronomy13102532