Insects that Transmit Plant-Pathogenic Nematodes

Abstract

Insects are the largest phylum belonging to the animal queen and constitute the most diverse group of living organisms on Earth. They contain more than one million species, and beetles alone amount to 360,000 species. Most types of insects cause heavy economic losses in various ways, including the transmission of other pathogens, especially nematodes, which is the second largest group After insects in number and variety, it does not have respiratory and circulatory systems but contains a pseudo-body cavity and is found in every ,The wet environments of the world and their parasitic species are invisible to the naked eye. However, the insect species that transmit nematodes do not form , More than 1% of the number of parasitic nematodes on plants. The search results show that ,The pine saw beetle Monochamus titillator and the coconut palm weevil Rhynchophorus palmarum transmit Aphelenchoides xylophilus nematodes and the coconut palm nematode Rhadinaphelenchus cocophilus on pine trees causing huge economic losses.