Atlas of Stored-Product Insects and Mites

By David Hagstrum

No other reference offers such an extensive hands-on guide to the most common stored-product pests. Atlas of Stored-Product Insects and Mites includes photographs and summary information for each of the 235 stored product insect species. Summary information includes common names, synonyms for scientific names, records of geographic distribution, suitability of commodities as insect food and commodity infestation, literature citations for life history studies and a list of natural enemies. Similar summary information is provided for 280 species of mites (Acari) reported to be associated with stored products.

The high quality photographs and summary information make this reference essential to the fast and accurate specific identification needed for effective pest management. The authors also cover the tools and information that should be considered when developing a pest management program and provide reference sources for additional information on pest management.

Atlas of Stored-Product Insects and Mites will make solving stored-product pest problems faster and easier making this an essential desk reference for anyone working with stored-product insects or mites.

Special features

• High quality color photographs for 235 species of stored product insects
• Common names and synonyms for 235 insect and 280 mite species
• Suitability of 537 commodities as food for 84 stored product insect species
• Summarizes 15,611 infestation records for 1010 commodities reported in the literature
• References for life history studies of insect and mite species
• Geographic distribution of each species
• List of natural enemies
• Discussion of tools and information needed for pest management

An essential reference for:

• Extension personnel
• Food industry sanitarians
• Food industry managers
• Legislators
• Pest management professionals
• Pest management consultants
• Plant quarantine inspectors
• Regulators
• Seed technologists
• Stored-product entomologist
• Stored-product acarologists
• Students
• Urban entomologists

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Release date: May 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9780128104316

David Hagstrum

Specialty: Management of stored-product insects Education: BA, Biology-Chemistry, California Western University; PhD, Entomology, University of California, Riverside

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Atlas of Stored-Product Insects and Mites

David W. Hagstrum

Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.A.

Tomasz Klejdysz

Department of Entomology, Institute of Plant Protection, National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland

Bhadriraju Subramanyam

Department of Grain Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.A.

Jan Nawrot

Department of Entomology, Institute of Plant Protection, National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland

Table of Contents

Cover image

Title page

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2: STORED-PRODUCT INSECTS

Chapter 3: CLASSIFICATION AND CROSS INFESTATION OF COMMODITIES

Chapter 4: COMMODITY SUITABILITY

Chapter 5: INFESTATION RECORDS

Chapter 6: STORED-PRODUCT MITES

Chapter 7: PEST MANAGEMENT

BASICS AND CONCEPTS

INSECT MONITORING

INSECT IDENTIFICATION

SELECTION OF METHOD AND TIMING FOR PEST MANAGEMENT

AERATION

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

EXTREME TEMPERATURES

FUMIGATION

IMPACT AND PEST REMOVAL

IONIZING RADIATION

RESIDUAL INSECTICIDES

SANITATION AND PEST EXCLUSION

COMBINATION OF METHODS

CONCLUSIONS

Copyright

Cover images by Tomasz Klejdysz

This book has been formatted directly from copy submitted in final form to AACC International by the authors. No editing or proofreading has been done by the publisher.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012916984

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-891127-75-5

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Acknowledgments

All of the photographs are original and were of insect specimens in the collection of the authors or insect specimens borrowed from other collections. The photographs were taken by the second author with the exception of images of the species Aglossa pinguinalis, Cadra cautella, Ephestia elutella, E. kuehniella, Galleria mellonella, Hofmannophila pseudospretella, Etiella zinckenella, which were taken by Jarosław Buszko and included with his permission.

We thank the following institutions that provided insect specimens for photographs:

Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wroclaw, Poland; Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland; Institute of Plant Protection – National Research Institute, Pozna , Poland; Julius Kühn Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants Berlin, Germany; Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; University of Life Sciences, Pozna , Poland.

We also thank the following people for providing insect specimens from their private collections:

Robert Gawro ski (Morąg, Poland); Andrzej Grzywacz (Toru , Poland); Marcin Kadej (Wrocław, Poland); Jacek Kalisiak (Łódź, Poland); Szymon Konwerski (Pozna , Poland); Bartek Pacuk (Toru , Poland); Marek Przewoźny (Pozna , Poland); Andrzej Laso (Białystok, Poland); Mariusz Mleczak (Gli sk, Poland); Tomasz Mokrzycki (Warsaw, Poland); Patrycjusz Nowik (Kraków, Poland)

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

As well as a bound collection of maps, an atlas can be defined as a book of photographs or tables covering any subject. High quality insect photographs in Atlas of Stored-Product Insects and Mites will be useful in making an initial insect identification so that an appropriate taxonomic key can be selected to confirm the identification of an insect species. The book has 7 chapters. Chapter 2 has insect photographs and summary information for each of the 235 insect species that add to the photographs given in Nawrot and Klejdysz (2009) book and the information in Hagstrum and Subramanyam (2009a). The insect species photographed were 235 out of 1663 species that were ranked highest as stored-product insect pests. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 expand upon the summaries in Chapter 2. Chapter 6 provides summary information for 280 species of mites (Acari) reported to be associated with stored products similar to the summary information provided for insects. Chapter 7 discusses tools and information that need to be considered when developing a pest management program for stored-product insect pests and shows where additional information can be found. For a good example of a monitoring-based pest management program developed for stored wheat insect pests see Hagstrum et al. (2010). Popular literature which is infrequently cited in the scientific literature can be more user friendly and provide an industry perspective of pest problems and solutions. For an overview of useful popular literature on stored-product insect pests and their management see Hagstrum and Subramanyam (2009b).

The Atlas will be useful to students, extension personnel, consultants, food industry sanitarians and managers, legislators, regulators, plant quarantine inspectors, stored-product entomologists, urban entomologists, seed technologists and pest management professionals, and will be an essential desk reference for anyone working with stored-product insects or mites. Atlas of Stored-Product Insects and Mites includes more stored-product insect and mite common names, synonyms for stored-product insects and mites scientific names, geographic distribution records and literature citations for life histories studies than other books. The commodities infested by insect species are classified into 28 categories and research on the suitability of commodities as insect food is summarized. Literature references are provided for each record of a commodity infested by an insect species. These literature references may help the readers decide whether a commodity is likely to be a suitable host for a pest species. Atlas of Stored-Product Insects and Mites shows the diversity and geographic distribution of stored-product insect and mite species, and will make solving stored-product pest problems easier by making essential information more readily available.

REFERENCES

Hagstrum, D. W., Flinn, P. W., Reed, C. R., Phillips, T. W. Ecology and IPM of insects at grain elevators and flat storages. Biopestic. Intern.. 2010; 6:1–20.

Hagstrum, D. W., Subramanyam, Bh.Stored-Product Insect Resource. St. Paul, MN.: AACC International, 2009.

Hagstrum, D. W., Subramanyam, Bh. A review of stored-product entomology information sources. Am. Entomol.. 2009; 55:174–183.

ci. Polskie Stowarzyszenie Pracowników Dezynfekcji, Dezynsekcji i Deratyzacji, Warszawa, Poland. (Atlas of Insect Food Pests.)

CHAPTER 2

STORED-PRODUCT INSECTS

A full listing of the abbreviations used in Table 2.2 is given in Table 2.1. Photographs of the adults of 235 species stored-product insects and information on these species are included in Table 2.2. For a few of these species, pictures of male and female are included to show the sexual dimorphism. Wingspan is given for most Lepidoptera and body length is given for the other species. Much of the text in Table 2.2 is from Hagstrum and Subramanyam (2009) with some summarization and updating. In addition to English common names, French (F), German (G), Russian (R) and Spanish (S) common names are provided for many species. Common names are reported for 26.8% of the the 235 species of insects.

TABLE 2.1

Abbreviations used in the tables and text

TABLE 2.2

Insect species associated with stored productsa