Effects of plant oil-based sprayable adhesives for crop protection on thrips and predatory arthropods

Dear reader,

The four excel files in this dataset collection belong to a series of whole plant assays that were performed to investigate the effects of sprayable adhesives made from vegetable oils on western flower thrips and on commercially used predatory arthropods.

The aim of this study was to assess the compatibility of predatory arthropods with the sprayable plant oil-based adhesives.

The manuscript that this study belongs to, currently titled: Compatibility of predatory arthropods with plant oil-based sprayable adhesives for thrips control, by Bierman et al. is currently in preparation for submission to the Journal of Pest Science

Details on the experimental methods are provided within the "metadata" sheets of the datasets

For details about the materials themselves, e.g. how to make the adhesives that were sprayed, please see our previous publications:

Bierman TV, Vrieling K, Van Zwieten R, Kodger TE, Macel M, Bezemer TM (2024) Adhesive droplets made from plant-derived oils for control of western flower thrips. J Pest Sci 97:2175–2186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-024-01755-4

and dataset: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.j3tx95xnr

Van Zwieten, R, Bierman TV, Klinkhamer PGL, Bezemer TM, Vrieling K, Kodger TE (2024) Mimicking natural deterrent strategies in plants using adhesive spheres. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 121:e2321565121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321565121

also see our publication in Frontiers of Plant Sciences: 

Bierman, T. V., Fernandes, H. P., Choi, Y. H., Seo, S., Vrieling, K., Macel, M., ... & Bezemer, T. M. (2025). Sprayable solutions containing sticky rice oil droplets reduce western flower thrips damage and induce changes in Chrysanthemum leaf chemistry. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16, 1509126. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1509126

and earlier dataset of this study uploaded by the same author: https://zenodo.org/records/14604988

for questions, please contact T. V. Bierman