Capture of Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Dry Traps Baited with a Food-Based Attractant and Jackson Traps Baited with Trimedlure During Sterile Male Release in Guatemala

Midgarden, David; Ovalle, Oscar; Epsky, Nancy D.; Puche, Helena; Kendra, Paul E.; Rendón, Pedro; Heath, Robert R.

doi:10.1603/0022-0493-97.6.2137

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“…Previous studies had reported similar results with different types of traps baited with the same compounds as those used in our work (Midgarden et al, 2004;Heath et al, 2004;Broughton & De Lima, 2002;Katsoyannos & Papadopoulos, 2004;Papadopoulos et al, 2001;Epsky et al, 1999;Navarro-Llopis et al, 2008;Alonso-Muños & García Mari, 2007;Gazit et al, 1998;Katsoyannos et al, 1999;Alfawwer et al, 2009). In addition, the traps baited with three food attractants that were used in our work also catch more female flies than Trimedlure trap (Midgarden et al, 2004;Papadopoulos et al, 2001;Epsky et al, 1999;Katsoyannos et al, 1999). According to Broughton and De Lima (2002), Midgarden et al, (2004) and Pezhman et al, (2011), Trimedlure traps are specific to males.…”

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Comparative efficacy of mass trapping and attract-and-kill technique in the control of medfly (Ceratitis capitata, Wiedemann) in Central Moroccan peach orchards

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To develop eco-friendly alternative control strategies for medfly, mass trapping trials were conducted in the central Morocco during the crop season 2016. Two control methods, mass trapping and the attract-and-kill technique were compared for the control of medfly on two peach varieties (?Rome Star? and ?Ryan Sun?) in Sefou district. For mass trapping, 62 traps/1.23 ha of MagnetTMMed type baited with ammonium acetate, trimethylamine, putrescine and 0.01 g of deltamethrin were installed on both varieties. In plots testing the attract-and-kill technique, treatments with malathion in mixture with protein hydrolyzate were applied to straw tufts attached to branches of the same varieties whenever 1 fly was caught on a Trimedlure trap installed at the center of each plot. The results showed that the number of flies captured by mass trapping reached 508 and 489 adults on ?Rome Star? and ?Ryan Sun?, respectively. The average number varied from 1 to 3 adults/trap/day, depending on the date of capture and the variety, and females accounted for 62-100% of total caught flies. In plots protected by the attract-and-kill technique, and taking into account the threshold adopted by the farm, 11 and 15 treatments were carried out respectively on the ?Ryan Sun? and ?Rome Star? varieties. Overall, infestation rates in plots did not exceed 0.3% before or at harvest with mass trapping versus 0.9% with the attract-and-kill technique. On fruit dropped on the ground, the infestation rate did not exceed 4% in mass trapping, compared to 11.5% in the chemically treated plots. Mass trapping was therefore proved to be an effective and eco-friendly tool for managing medfly on peach fruit.

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Comparative efficacy of mass trapping and attract-and-kill technique in the control of medfly (Ceratitis capitata, Wiedemann) in Central Moroccan peach orchards

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“…Depending on environmental conditions, ammonia/putrescine lures can be more attractive to female tephritids than liquid protein baits, and ammonia/putrescine is more attractive to females than males (Heath et al 1997, Kendra et al 2009. Furthermore, protein cues are more attractive to female Ceratitis capitata Wiedemann (Diptera: Tephritidae) than trimedlure, and protein traps capture fewer released sterile males, making them more efficient for monitoring sterile male release success (Midgarden et al 2004). Female tephritids require greater food resources, especially protein, for ovary development because they are anautogenous, or immature upon adult eclosion from the pupa.…”

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Evaluation of Lures for Monitoring Silk Flies (Diptera: Ulidiidae) in Sweet Corn

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Florida Entomologist

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“…However, we must also consider the additional detection ability afforded by the McPhail traps. The available literature suggests that protein lures are approximately as effective as Trimed lure in attracting Medfly (Grout et al 2011; Katsoyannos et al 1999; Midgarden et al 2004). For Medfly in our analysis, then, we assume a 2–3 % sensitivity of the trapping grid.…”

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An agent-based simulation of extirpation of Ceratitis capitata applied to invasions in California

Manoukis

Hoffman

2013

J Pest Sci

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We present an agent-based simulation (ABS) of Ceratitis capitata (“Medfly”) developed for estimating the time to extirpation of this pest in areas where quarantines and eradication treatments were immediately imposed. We use the ABS, implemented in the program MED-FOES, to study seven different outbreaks that occurred in Southern California from 2008 to 2010. Results are compared with the length of intervention and quarantine imposed by the State, based on a linear developmental model (thermal unit accumulation, or “degree-day”). MED-FOES is a useful tool for invasive species managers as it incorporates more information from the known biology of the Medfly, and includes the important feature of being demographically explicit, providing significant improvements over simple degree-day calculations. While there was general agreement between the length of quarantine by degree-day and the time to extirpation indicated by MED-FOES, the ABS suggests that the margin of safety varies among cases and that in two cases the quarantine may have been excessively long. We also examined changes in the number of individuals over time in MED-FOES and conducted a sensitivity analysis for one of the outbreaks to explore the role of various input parameters on simulation outcomes. While our implementation of the ABS in this work is motivated by C. capitata and takes extirpation as a postulate, the simulation is very flexible and can be used to study a variety of questions on the invasion biology of pest insects and methods proposed to manage or eradicate such species.

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Capture of Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Dry Traps Baited with a Food-Based Attractant and Jackson Traps Baited with Trimedlure During Sterile Male Release in Guatemala

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Comparative efficacy of mass trapping and attract-and-kill technique in the control of medfly (Ceratitis capitata, Wiedemann) in Central Moroccan peach orchards

Comparative efficacy of mass trapping and attract-and-kill technique in the control of medfly (Ceratitis capitata, Wiedemann) in Central Moroccan peach orchards

Evaluation of Lures for Monitoring Silk Flies (Diptera: Ulidiidae) in Sweet Corn

An agent-based simulation of extirpation of Ceratitis capitata applied to invasions in California

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