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A Flying Start for Insects: Incorporating Drones in the Distribution of Insects Used as Biological Control Agents.

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Title/Author:	A Flying Start for Insects: Incorporating Drones in the Distribution of Insects Used as Biological Control Agents./
Author:	Vincze, Haley R.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
Description:	103 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International83-12.
Subject:	Agriculture. -
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ISBN:	9798819391549

A Flying Start for Insects: Incorporating Drones in the Distribution of Insects Used as Biological Control Agents.
Vincze, Haley R.

A Flying Start for Insects: Incorporating Drones in the Distribution of Insects Used as Biological Control Agents. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 103 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12.

Thesis (M.S.)--New Mexico State University, 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

New technology provides opportunities to aerially distribute biological control agents using more innovative methods. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones, are beginning to be used for aerial releases of several biological control agents in high value cropping systems. The feasibility of dispersal of biological control agents using drones to control black pecan aphids, Melanocallis caryaefoliae (Davis); and the yellow aphid complex: blackmargined pecan aphids, Monellia caryella (Fitch), and yellow pecan aphids, Monelliopsis pecanis Bissell; was tested during the summers of 2020 and 2021 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Convergent ladybird beetles, Hippodamia convergens Guerin-Meneville, and green lacewings, Chrysoperla rufilabris (Burmeister), were delivered at densities of 5,000 per hectare in 2020 and 33,000 per hectare in 2021 respectively, using a DJI Matrice 600 pro drone. A prototype insect distribution system developed with an industry partner was used to determine the appropriate release altitude and densities. This research showed that drones can efficiently release biological control agents in an agroecosystem setting to control aphid populations. This application method can be adapted in the future to other biological control programs in agroecosystems. 

ISBN: 9798819391549Subjects--Topical Terms:

660421
Agriculture.
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Aerial release

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