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Journal Article
Extrafloral nectar from coffee-associated trees as alternative food for a predatory mite
2025
Overview
Plant diversity can enhance natural pest control in agriculture by providing resources and conditions that are not regularly available in conventional crops to natural enemies of crop pests. Extrafloral nectar-producing plants, for example, might cause reduction of pest densities on neighboring plants because the nectar can increase the performance of natural enemies. Coffee agroforestry systems often contain extrafloral-nectar-producing
Inga
spp. trees that serve several purposes. Recent studies suggest that they attract and arrest a diversity of natural enemies that contribute to the control of coffee pests. Mites from the Phytoseiid family are key natural enemies of coffee pest mites, but no study has investigated whether
Inga
extrafloral nectar increases the performance of predatory mites in coffee ecosystems. Thus, here, we assessed whether the extrafloral nectar of
Inga edulis
Mart. (Fabaceae) can be considered a suitable nutritional resource for the predatory mite
Amblyseius herbicolus
(Chant), one of the most abundant phytoseiids in coffee crops. We found that feeding on extrafloral nectar allows for development and survival, but not reproduction, of
A. herbicolus
. Whereas individuals that fed on a diet of nectar during their immature development could subsequently only oviposit after having fed on a pollen diet, individuals that had developed on pollen stopped ovipositing when fed nectar. Our findings suggest that interplanted
Inga
trees can help to conserve populations of predatory mites in crop ecosystems through the provision of nectar and may boost biological control services. Future research should investigate the effects of extrafloral nectar-producing trees on coffee pest control by these predatory mites.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Animal Genetics and Genomics
/ Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
/ Animals
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Coffea
/ Coffee
/ Crops
/ Diet
/ family
/ Female
/ Mites
/ Nectar
/ Pests
/ Pollen
/ Trees
