Long-term pheromone-mediated mating disruption of the Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella, in a flourmill
Författare
Summary, in English
Several studies have indicated that mating disruption (MD) successfully reduces population densities of stored product moths, for example, the Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). However, practical issues, such as finding control plots, replication, and lack of similarity between replicates, often incur problems in full-scale investigations and often draw focus from the added results. We here present results from long-term monitoring of E. kuehniella populations in two similar flourmills in Poland, one treated with pheromone for MD and one left untreated and used as control. Pheromone-mediated MD was applied during 2 years. Thirty pheromone dispensers (one per 100 m(3) factory volume), each releasing about 2 mg (Z,E)-9,12-tetradecadienyl acetate per day, were used. Pheromone-baited traps were used to monitor the moth populations in the MD mill and in a nearby untreated mill. The reduction in trap catch during the MD treatment was about 90% or more, compared with the untreated mill or pre-treatment periods of the MD mill. The reduction was larger during the 2nd year of MD than during the 1st year. These results contribute to the picture that MD is an effective method to control moth species infesting stored products.
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
294-299
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Volym
131
Issue
3
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley
Ämne
- Biological Sciences
- Zoology
Nyckelord
- Lepidoptera
- semiochemicals
- (Z
- E)-9
- 12-tetradecadienyl
- IPM
- acetate
- Pyralidae
- stored product pest
- pest control
Status
Published
Projekt
- Pheromones and kairomones for control of stored product pests
Forskningsgrupp
- Pheromone Group
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1570-7458