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Practical and Simple Systems for Food Intake Studies on Phloem-Sucking Insects

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Studies of insect feeding behavior are useful in different areas of entomology such as plant resistance, biology, and insecticide efficacy. For chewing insects, this kind of technique is well established, but for sap-sucking insects, especially tiny ones such as whiteflies, aphids, and psyllids, these tests can be laborious. Manipulation is difficult and can damage the plant, affecting the results. We describe here three types of cages for tests with small insects, one for seedlings in pots, a second for larger plants or plants in the field, and a third for caging insects on part of a leaf. These cages have been useful for different types of studies in addition to feeding behavior and can facilitate research with small phytophagous sucking insects.

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Acknowledgments

We extend our thanks to Janet W. Reid (JWR Associates) for English revision, to the São Paulo Research Foundation for grants (FAPESP process numbers 2016/24998-9, 2013/04291-0 and SPARCBio - São Paulo Advanced Research Center for Biological Control, FAPESP process number 2018/02317-5), and to Sapiens Scientific Illustration for the figure.

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  1. Dept of Entomology and Acarology, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, Univ of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brasil

    G R Alves, A J F Diniz, C H Silveira & J R P Parra

  2. Koppert Biological Systems, Piracicaba, SP, Brasil

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Gustavo Rodrigues Alves, Jaci Mendes Vieira, and Camila Haddad Silveira conceived the ideas for the cages, Gustavo Rodrigues Alves wrote the manuscript, and Alexandre José Ferreira Diniz and José Roberto Postali Parra wrote and revised the manuscript.

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Alves, G.R., Diniz, A.J.F., Vieira, J.M. et al. Practical and Simple Systems for Food Intake Studies on Phloem-Sucking Insects. Neotrop Entomol 50, 156–160 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-020-00803-9

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