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Sustainable Pest Management for Coffee Production
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Sustainable Pest Management for Coffee Production

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Systems and Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (12 April 2023) | Viewed by 3780

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Madelaine Venzon

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Agriculture and Livestock Research Enterprise of Minas Gerais (EPAMIG), Vila Gianetti 46, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Interests: conservation biological control; agroforestry; organic farming; biological control; entomology; pest management
Prof. Dr. Angelo Pallini

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Department of Entomology, Federal University of Viçosa, Campus UFV, Minas Gerais 36570-900, Brazil
Interests: agricultural acarology; food web interaction in agroecosystems; entomology; crop protection; applied ecology; pest management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Conventional management of coffee pests relies on chemical pesticides, but environmental problems, pest resistance, toxicity-related issues, and trader compliance have led coffee growers to search for alternatives for pest control. Agroecological strategies suitable for coffee cultivation can be adopted by farmers based on plant diversification in order to provide resources for natural enemies, such as nectar, pollen, shelter, microclimate conditions, and oviposition sites, thereby promoting conservation biological control. Additionally, curative measures using less harmful pesticides such as botanical extract and oils and biopesticides are important during periods of high pest populations. Using resistant coffee cultivars, monitoring of pests and knowledge of pest spatial distribution are essential tools for successful sustainable coffee management.

This Special Issue focuses on the above strategies. We welcome original studies addressing them, as well as those on coffee food web interactions on insects and mite communities.

Prof. Dr. Madelaine Venzon
Prof. Dr. Angelo Pallini
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • conservation biological control
  • biopesticides
  • coffee berry borer
  • coffee leaf miner
  • mites
  • food web interactions
  • pest monitoring
  • coffee pest resistance cultivars

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Scale Insects and Natural Enemies Associated with Conilon Coffee (Coffea canephora) in São Paulo State, Brazil
by Ivana Lemos Souza, Hágabo Honorato de Paulo, Matheus Alves de Siqueira, Valmir Antonio Costa, Ana Paula Gonçalves da Silva Wengrat, Ana Lúcia Benfatti Gonzalez Peronti and Nilza Maria Martinelli
Agriculture 2023, 13(4), 829; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13040829 - 04 Apr 2023
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Several insect pests are related to the cultivation of conilon coffee, Coffea canephora (Rubiaceae), including (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha). Coccoids damage plants by sucking their sap, producing honeydew, and transmitting viruses. Parasitoids and predators are natural enemies that regulate the insect population and can be [...] Read more.
Several insect pests are related to the cultivation of conilon coffee, Coffea canephora (Rubiaceae), including (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha). Coccoids damage plants by sucking their sap, producing honeydew, and transmitting viruses. Parasitoids and predators are natural enemies that regulate the insect population and can be used in mealybug biological control. This study aimed to survey scale insects and natural enemies associated with C. canephora in the city of Jaboticabal, São Paulo State, Brazil. Two species of mealybugs from the family Coccidae and three from the family Pseudococcidae were collected in different plant structures. Natural enemies collected comprised hymenopteran parasitoids from the families Aphelinidae, Eulophidae, Encyrtidae, and Perilampidae; predator beetles of the family Coccinellidae; dipterans from the family Cecidomyiidae; and thrips of the family Aeolothripidae. This is the first report of the mealybug species Coccus brasiliensis, Pseudococcus longispinus, and Pseudococcus cryptus; of the parasitoids Coccophagus rusti, Aprostocetus sp., Aenasius advena, Aenasius fusciventris, Aenasius pseudococci, and Perilampus sp.; and of the predators Cycloneda conjugata, Pseudoazya nana, Diadiplosis coccidivora, Diadiplosis sp., and Franklinothrips vespiformis, associated with C. canephora. Knowledge of mealybug species and their respective natural enemies will contribute to biological control strategies in planning the integrated management of mealybugs associated with conilon coffee. Full article
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Use of Geostatistics as a Tool to Study Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Leucoptera coffeella in Coffee Crops
by Adriana H. Walerius, Angelo Pallini, Madelaine Venzon, Paulo A. Santana Júnior, Thiago L. Costa, Jhersyka da S. Paes, Emílio de S. Pimentel and Marcelo C. Picanço
Agriculture 2023, 13(2), 438; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020438 - 13 Feb 2023
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Coffee is considered one of the most important commercial commodities globally, and in 2020, it moved to a global market of USD 102.02 billion. However, the attack of pests in coffee production can cause significant economic losses. Leucoptera coffeella is a critical pest [...] Read more.
Coffee is considered one of the most important commercial commodities globally, and in 2020, it moved to a global market of USD 102.02 billion. However, the attack of pests in coffee production can cause significant economic losses. Leucoptera coffeella is a critical pest in coffee-producing countries, with productivity losses reaching 87%. The knowledge of the spatial distribution patterns of L. coffeella is essential to developing an efficient sampling and control plan. Moreover, it allows us to target for control specific locations/seasons where L. coffeella occurrence is at its highest density before reaching the economic injury level. Therefore, our objective in this study was to determine the spatial distribution of L. coffeella in coffee crops through geostatistical analysis. Data on the population density of L. coffeella were collected over four years on a farm with 18 center pivots located in the Brazilian Cerrado. The presence of L. coffeella was recorded in all 18 pivots during the entire time of the study (2016 to 2020). The highest densities were from July to November. These high densities of L. coffeella positively correlated with maximum air temperatures and wind speed. It was also verified to negatively correlate with minimum air temperatures and rainfall. The surrounding vegetation does not affect the pest densities. The pest hotspots appeared in different pivots and different locations inside pivots. Furthermore, L. coffeella showed an aggregated distribution pattern. For three years, the colonization started at the edge of the crop. The sampling should be performed equidistant as the pest is distributed equally in all directions. The information found in this study provides valuable information to initiate timely management and control methods in coffee crops with a high incidence of L. coffeella, thus reducing production costs and the harmful effects of pesticide use. Full article
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