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Generalist predators, food web complexities and biological pest control in
greenhouse crops
Messelink, G.J.
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2012
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Messelink, G. J. (2012). Generalist predators, food web complexities and biological pest
control in greenhouse crops.
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Curriculum vitae
G
erben Messelink was born on March 2, 1973 in Doornspijk (‘t Harde), a small
village on the forest-rich ‘Veluwe’ in The Netherlands. After high school (VWO,
Lambert Franckens College), he studied plant breeding and crop protection at the
Wageningen Agricultural University with a specialization in ecological crop protection
(phytopathology and entomology). During this study, he stayed 6 months at the
Malborough Wine Research Centre in New Zealand. After his graduation in 1997, he
began his first job for the company Relab den Haan, dealing with plant health
diag-nostic services for the greenhouse industry. With two years of experience in
identify-ing pests and pathogens, he started to work as a phytopathologist at the Research
station for Floriculture and Glasshouse Vegetables in Naaldwijk. In 2000, he switched
to a new job within the same institute as a scientific researcher entomology. This
institute was privatised in 2001 and changed her name in Applied Plant Research
and eventually in Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture. Since the switch to
ento-mology, he worked on many applied projects on pest control, such as the cabbage
root fly in radish, Duponchelia fovealis in potted plants, bulb scale mite in amaryllis,
thrips in chrysanthemum, thrips, spider mite and whitefly in cucumber and
caterpil-lars and aphids in sweet pepper. His work on predatory mites in cucumber was in
close collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, which resulted in a number of
joined publications and this thesis. He is active within the international organization
for Biological Control (IOBC) as council member of the WPRS section.
Publications
Messelink, G. 2002. Biological control of caterpillars with Cotesia marginiventris (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in sweet pepper and tomato. IOBC/wprs Bulletin 25:181-184.
Messelink, G. & W. van Wensveen. 2003. Biocontrol of Duponchelia fovealis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) with soil-dwelling predators in potted plants. Communications in Agricultural & Applied Biological Sciences 68:159-165.
Messelink, G. & M. van Slooten. 2004. Effects of soil-dwelling predators and organic treatments on the cab-bage root fly Delia radicum (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) in greenhouse radish. Proceedings of the Section Experimental and Applied Entomology of the Netherlands Entomological Society 15:87-91.
Oers, M. M. van, E. A. Herniou, M. Usmany, G. J. Messelink & J. M. Vlak. 2004. Identification and characte-rization of a DNA photolyase-containing baculovirus from Chrysodeixis chalcites. Virology 330:460-470. Messelink, G., S. van Steenpaal & W. van Wensveen. 2005. Typhlodromips swirskii (Athias-Henriot) (Acari:
Phytoseiidae): a new predator for thrips control in greenhouse cucumber. IOBC/wprs Bulletin 28:183- 186.
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Messelink, G. J. & R. van Holstein-Saj. 2006. Potential for biological control of the bulb scale mite (Acari: Tarsonemidae) by predatory mites in amaryllis. Proceedings of the Section Experimental and Applied Entomology of the Netherlands Entomological Society 17:113-118.
Messelink, G. J., S. E. F. van Steenpaal & P. M. J. Ramakers. 2006. Evaluation of phytoseiid predators for con-trol of western flower thrips on greenhouse cucumber. BioConcon-trol 51:753-768.
Messelink, G. J. & C. M. J. Bloemhard. 2007. Woodlice (Isopoda) and millipedes (Diplopoda): control of rare greenhouse pests. Proceedings of the Section Experimental and Applied Entomology of the Netherlands Entomological Society 18:43-49.
Messelink, G. J. & R. van Holstein-Saj. 2007. Biological control of the bulb scale mite Steneotarsonemus
lat-iceps (Acari:Tarsonemidae) with Neoseiulus barkeri (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in amaryllis. IOBC/wprs Bulletin
30:81-85.
Messelink, G. & R. van Holstein-Saj. 2008. Improving thrips control by the soil-dwelling predatory mite
Macrocheles robustulus (Berlese). IOBC/wprs Bulletin 32:135-138.
Messelink, G. J. & A. Janssen. 2008. Do whiteflies help controlling thrips? IOBC/wprs Bulletin 32:131-134. Messelink, G. J., R. van Maanen, S. E. F. van Steenpaal & A. Janssen. 2008. Biological control of thrips and
whiteflies by a shared predator: two pests are better than one. Biological Control 44:372-379. Messelink, G. J., P. M. J. Ramakers, J. A. Cortez & A. Janssen. 2009. How to enhance pest control by
gen-eralist predatory mites in greenhouse crops. In: Third International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 309-318.
Blok, C. & G. J. Messelink. 2009. Improving control of Duponchelia fovealis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by roo-ting media related strategies. Acta Horticulturae 819:203-208.
Messelink, G. J., R. van Maanen, R. van Holstein-Saj, M. W. Sabelis & A. Janssen. 2010. Pest species diver-sity enhances control of spider mites and whiteflies by a generalist phytoseiid predator. BioControl 55:387-398.
Pilkington, L. J., G. Messelink, J. C. van Lenteren & K. Le Mottee. 2010. ‘Protected Biological Control’ – Biological pest management in the greenhouse industry. Biological Control 52:216-220.
Huang, N. X., A. Enkegaard, L. S. Osborne, P. M. J. Ramakers, G. J. Messelink, J. Pijnakker & G. Murphy. 2011. The banker plant method in biological control. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 30:259-278. Messelink, G. J., C. M. J. Bloemhard, J. A. Cortes, M. W. Sabelis & A. Janssen. 2011. Hyperpredation by
gen-eralist predatory mites disrupts biological control of aphids by the aphidophagous gall midge Aphidoletes
aphidimyza. Biological Control 57:246-252.
Grosman, A., G. Messelink & E. de Groot. 2011. Combined use of a mulch layer and the soil-dwelling preda-tory mite Macrocheles robustulus (Berlese) enhance the biological control of sciarids in potted plants. IOBC/wprs Bulletin 68:51-54.
Messelink, G. J., C. M. J. Bloemhard, H. Hoogerbrugge & J. van Schelt. 2011. Aphidius gifuensis: a promis-ing parasitoid for biological control of two important aphid species in sweet pepper. IOBC/wprs Bulletin 68:111-114.
Messelink, G. J., C. M. J. Bloemhard & R. Vellekoop. 2011. Biological control of aphids by the predatory midge Aphidoletes aphidimyza in the presence of intraguild predatory bugs and thrips. Acta Horticulturae 915:171-177.
Messelink, G. J., C. M. J. Bloemhard, L. Kok & A. Janssen. 2011. Generalist predatory bugs control aphids in sweet pepper. IOBC/wprs Bulletin 68:103-106.
van Schelt, J., H. Hoogerbrugge, N. Becker, G. Messelink & K. Bolckmans. 2011. Comparing Aphidius
cole-mani and Aphidius matricariae on Myzus persicae ssp. nicotianae in sweet pepper. IOBC/wprs Bulletin
68:169-172.
Messelink, G. J., M. W. Sabelis & A. Janssen. 2012. Generalist predators, food web complexities and biolog-ical pest control in greenhouse crops. In: Integrated Pest Management and Pest Control – Current and Future Tactics, pp. 191-214. InTech.
