Gonzalo A. Avila, Guillaume Martel, Raul Alberto Laumann, Gabriele Rondoni, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Barbara I. P. Barratt, Michael Rostás, Fernanda Cingolani, Eric Conti, Kim A. Hoelmer, Stefano Colazza, René Sforza, Eric Wajnberg, Luciana Tavella, Salvatore Guarino, Lara Maistrello, Ezio Peri, Pio Federico Roversi, Conti E., Avila G., Barratt B., Cingolani F., Colazza S., Guarino S., Hoelmer K., Laumann R.A., Maistrello L., Martel G., Peri E., Rodriguez-Saona C., Rondoni G., Rostas M., Roversi P.F., Sforza R.F.H., Tavella L., Wajnberg E., Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited [Auckland] (Plant & Food Research), Better Border Biosecurity (B3), Partenaires INRAE, Centro de Estudios Parasitologicos y de Vectores [La Plata] (CEPAVE), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP)-Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas [Buenos Aires] (CIC), Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo, Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse [Palermo] (IBBR), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), USDA-ARS : Agricultural Research Service, Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia [Brasília], Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), European Biological Control Laboratory (EBCL), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rutgers University System (Rutgers), Georg-August-University [Göttingen], Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA), Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), HExapode, PHysiologie, AssISTance et Objets de Service (HEPHAISTOS), Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (ISA), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia = University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria = Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO), and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)
International audience; Invasive stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) are responsible for high economic losses to agricul-ture on a global scale. The most important species, dating from recent to old invasions, includeBagrada hilaris (Burmeister), Halyomorpha halys (Stal), Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood), Nezara vir-idula (L.), and Murgantia histrionica (Hahn). Bagrada hilaris, H. halys,andN. viridula are nowalmost globally distributed. Biological control of these pests faces a complex set of challenges thatmust be addressed to maintain pest populations below the economic injury level. Several case studiesof classical and conservation biological control of invasive stink bugs are reported here. The mostcommon parasitoids in their geographical area of origin are egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Scelion-idae, Encyrtidae, and Eupelmidae). Additionally, native parasitoids of adult stink bugs (Diptera:Tachinidae) have in some cases adapted to the novel hosts in the invaded area and native predatorsare known to prey on the various instars. Improving the efficacy of biocontrol agents is possiblethrough conservation biological control techniques and exploitation of their chemical ecology.Moreover, integration of biological control with other techniques, such as behavioural manipulationof adult stink bugs and plant resistance, may be a sustainable pest control method within organicfarming and integrated pest management programs. However, additional field studies are needed toverify the efficacy of these novel methods and transfer them from research to application.