Presence-Absence Sampling Plans for Stink Bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in the Midwest Region of the United States

Rafael Carlesso Aita; Daniela T Pezzini; Eric C Burkness; Christina D DiFonzo; Deborah L Finke; Thomas E Hunt; Janet J Knodel; Christian H Krupke; Lia Marchi-Werle; Brian McCornack; Andrew P Michel; Christopher R Philips; Nicholas J Seiter; Adam J Varenhorst; Robert J Wright; William D Hutchison; Robert L Koch

doi:10.1093/jee/toab076

Presence-Absence Sampling Plans for Stink Bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in the Midwest Region of the United States

J Econ Entomol. 2021 Jun 11;114(3):1362-1372. doi: 10.1093/jee/toab076.

Authors

Rafael Carlesso Aita¹, Daniela T Pezzini², Eric C Burkness¹, Christina D DiFonzo³, Deborah L Finke⁴, Thomas E Hunt⁵, Janet J Knodel⁶, Christian H Krupke⁷, Lia Marchi-Werle⁸, Brian McCornack⁹, Andrew P Michel¹⁰, Christopher R Philips¹¹, Nicholas J Seiter¹², Adam J Varenhorst¹³, Robert J Wright¹⁴, William D Hutchison¹, Robert L Koch¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
² Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Plymouth, NC, USA.
³ Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
⁴ Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA.
⁵ Haskell Agricultural Laboratory, Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska, Concord, NE, USA.
⁶ Department of Plant Pathology, Extension Entomology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA.
⁷ Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
⁸ Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
⁹ Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA.
¹¹ Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Price Hall Blacksburg, VA, USA.
¹² Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.
¹³ Department of Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.

PMID: 33885759
DOI: 10.1093/jee/toab076

Abstract

Stink bugs represent an increasing risk to soybean production in the Midwest region of the United States. The current sampling protocol for stink bugs in this region is tailored for population density estimation and thus is more relevant to research purposes. A practical decision-making framework with more efficient sampling effort for management of herbivorous stink bugs is needed. Therefore, a binomial sequential sampling plan was developed for herbivorous stink bugs in the Midwest region. A total of 146 soybean fields were sampled across 11 states using sweep nets in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The binomial sequential sampling plans were developed using combinations of five tally thresholds at two proportion infested action thresholds to identify those that provided the best sampling outcomes. Final assessment of the operating characteristic curves for each plan indicated that a tally threshold of 3 stink bugs per 25 sweeps, and proportion infested action thresholds of 0.75 and 0.95 corresponding to the action thresholds of 5 and 10 stink bugs per 25 sweeps, provided the optimal balance between highest probability of correct decisions (≥ 99%) and lowest probability of incorrect decisions (≤ 1%). In addition, the average sample size for both plans (18 and 12 sets of 25 sweeps, respectively) was lower than that for the other proposed plans. The binomial sequential sampling plan can reduce the number of sample units required to achieve a management decision, which is important because it can potentially reduce risk/cost of management for stink bugs in soybean in this region.

Keywords: binomial sampling; insect sampling; resampling software; soybean; stink bug.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Glycine max
Herbivory
Heteroptera*
Population Density
United States