Thermal tolerance of Frankliniella occidentalis: Effects of temperature, exposure time, and gender

Developing radio frequency technology for postharvest insect control in milled rice

“…Conventional thermal treatments, such as hot air (Li et al, 2011), water (Armstrong and Follett, 2007), and steam (Samtani et al, 2012) heating, have been widely used for insect control in agricultural products due to no chemical residues, no environmental pollution, small equipment investments, and simple operations. A common and major difficulty with conventional thermal treatments is the slow conductive heating, which may result in long treatment time in high medium temperatures and possible damage to product quality (Paull and Armstrong, 1994;Wang et al, 2001).…”

Ecologically relevant measures of the physiological tolerance of light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana, to high temperature extremes

“…In contrast, significant gender differences for high temperature tolerance have been documented for Frankliniella occidentalis (Li et al, 2011), Bactroceraoleae (Pappas et al, 2010), Drosophila melanogaster (Folk et al, 2006) and Aphidius rhopalosiphi and Aphidius avenae (LeLann et al, 2011). For most insects, both sexes would be expected to share the same microhabitat and consequently to share the same high temperature tolerance.…”

Effects of heat shock on survival and predation of an important whitefly predator,Serangium japonicum

“…Nevertheless, two root maggots, Bradysia odoriphaga Yang & Zhang and Bradysia difformis Frey, were both susceptible to 38 °C heat shock, with all Ltime 50 <2.2 h in their eggs, second and fourth instars, pupae, and adults (Zhu et al., ). A 0.5‐h exposure to 39 °C caused approximately 50% mortality in Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) adults (Li et al., ). Some polar terrestrial invertebrates such as Eretmoptera murphyi Schaeffer and Cryptopygus antarcticus Willem were quite susceptible to heat stress and could not even survive 1 h at 35 and 37 °C, respectively (Everatt et al., , ).…”