Table 5 Occurrence of three microlepidopteran pests and their parasitoids, and predators associated with sorghum panicles post harvesting
From: Insect fauna of pests and their natural enemies inhabiting sorghum-panicles in Egypt
Seasons | Pests | Microlepidoptera | Parasitism% | Predators | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Larvae | Pupae | Dipteran parasitoid | Hymenopteran parasitoid | Spiders | Scymnus spp. | Orius spp. | ||
2016 | Pyroderces simplex | 147 | 47 | 0 | 21.28 | 33 | 14 | 18 |
Cryptoblabes gnidiella | 11 | 4 | 50 | 0 | ||||
Eublemma gayneri | 11 | 12 | 16.67 | 8.33 | ||||
2017 | P. simplex | 96 | 30 | 0 | 23.33 | 0 | 24 | 4 |
C. gnidiella | 5 | 2 | 50 | 0 | ||||
E. gayneri | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
2018 | P. simplex | 79 | 73 | 0 | 10.96 | 24 | 9 | 5 |
C. gnidiella | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
E. gayneri | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||