The possibility of using some susceptible wheat varieties to European wheat stem sawfly Cephus pygmaeus L. as trap crop in Integrated Pest Management of this insect

The results showed that the use of both susceptible wheat cultivars to wheat stem sawfly Cephus pygmaeus (NN25, 12167) beside a cultivated wheat variety (ICPW 13172) reduce damage proportion by European wheat stem sawfly to cultivated variety 7.2-18.2% when the experiment was carried out within the cages and 2.6 to 5.9% in field conditions. While the variety 12167 affect negatively on the life and fitness of this insect compared with variety NN25 where it cause of killing most of the larvae within its stems (54.03% in 2011 and 70.72% in the 2012) during its development, It also reduced the fertility of females, which followed its development and emerged in the following season, it was significantly less than the fertility of female emerging of NN25. Where the average female fertility of NN25 in two seasons 47.48, 48.32 egg, while the average fertility of female of 12167 in two seasons 28.32 and 28.36 egg.