| Vegetables are important cash crops in Guangdong Province. Vegetable industry is one of the key industries for the development of agricultural industrialization, and plays an important role in increasing farmers’ income and rural development. Guangdong Province is rich in light, heat and water resources, and is warm and humid all year round, with developed planting industry and rich vegetable species. Year-round cultivation can be conducted with high cropping index,resulting in continuous outbreaks of vegetable pests and perennial damages, affecting vegetable production and quality and restricting the healthy development of the vegetable industry. Taking the main vegetable pests in Guangdong as research objects, such as Plutella xylostella, Phyllotreta striolata, Thrips palmi, Spodoptera exigua, Spodoptera litura, Bemisia tabaci, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, Liriomyza sativae, Maruca testulalis and etc., the research progress in the damage regularity of main vegetable pests in Guangdong, and the insecticide resistance as well as related mechanisms in recent years were summarized. The integrated management technologies of important vegetable pests were reviewed, and research directions of vegetable pests in the future were prospected. |
