Common green lacewing the Faceted life of a predatorChrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) and density on citrus trees.

Abstract

The study was conducted in Wasit province (Numaniya) and the province of Baghdad (Jadiriyah) in 2013-2014 in orchards planted with different kinds of citrus under the date palms infected with the whitefly Aleuroclava jasmini (Takahashi) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). The results of the study showed that predator the common green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea ( stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) is the dominant predator in the presence and prevalence on various citrus trees with different densities depending on the density of whitefly, and the highest density was on Tangerine trees Citrus tangerine Tanaka and recorded all his stages (eggs, larvae, pupae and adults) during the spring, summer and autumn, and is in the winter the stage of active and volatile adult insects among the trees citrus, which underlines the lack of passing Hibernation and that the intensity of the predator first two peaks during the months of June and July and the second in September and October.