Reduction in Insect Damage to Cucumbers, Tomatoes, and Sweet Corn Through Use of Electric Light Traps1

Barrett, James; Deay, H. O.; Hartsock, J. G.

doi:10.1093/jee/64.5.1241

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“…Indirect approaches to infer k include variation in the number of light sources per trap [21,33,78,85] and a variable distance between the traps/number of traps per hectare, in order to evaluate the attraction range of individual traps [15,21,23,30,45,50,86]. The issue is further complexified when males and females exhibit a distinct response to trap density [87].…”

Section: Density Of Light Trapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Parameters related to Y were assessed in the majority of studies in Table 2 (>60% before and after 1980), including the density of eggs/larvae in offspring generations, proportion of damaged plants, yield estimates, and reduction in the number of insecticide applications (references in Table 2). The efficacy of LT mt is often distance-dependent: crop damage is the highest further away from mass trapping plots [21,24,26,41,59,63]. Some mass trapping studies did not record adult abundance, focusing instead on measurable consequences of LT mt on Y [21,24,53].…”

Section: Beneficial Impact Of Lt Mt On Crop Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mass Trapping Lepidopteran Pests with Light Traps, with Focus on Tortricid Forest Pests: What If?

Rhainds

2024

Insects

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The management of Lepidopteran pests with light traps (LTs) is often achieved by luring adults to death at light sources (light trap-based mass trapping, or LTmt). Large-scale LTmt programs against agricultural pests initiated in the late 1920s in the United States were phased out in the 1970s, coinciding with the rise of pheromone-based management research. The interest in LTmt has surged in recent years with the advent of light emitting diodes, solar power sources, and intelligent design. The first step in implementing LTmt is to identify a trapping design that maximizes the capture of target pests and minimizes the capture of non-target beneficial insects—with a cautionary note that high captures in LTs are not equivalent to the feasibility of mass trapping: the ultimate objective of LTmt is to protect crop plants from pest damage, not to trap adults. The captures of egg-carrying females in light traps have a greater impact on the efficiency of LTmt than the captures of males. When LTmt is defined as a harvesting procedure, the biomass of females in LTs may be viewed as the best estimator of the mass trapping yield; biomass proxy has universal application in LTmt as every living organism can be defined on a per weight basis. While research has largely focused on agricultural pests, an attempt is made here to conceptualize LTmt as a pest management strategy in forest ecosystems, using spruce budworm as a case study. The mass trapping of female budworms is impossible to achieve in endemic populations due to the large spatial scale of forest landscapes (implying the deployment of a prohibitively large number of LTs); in addition, ovipositing female budworms do not respond to light sources at a low density of conspecifics. The light-based mass trapping of female budworms may provide a realistic management option for geographically isolated forest stands heavily infested with budworms, as a tool to prevent tree mortality. Somehow unexpectedly, however, one factor obscuring the feasibility of LTmt is as follows: the complex (‘unknowable’) economic valuation of forest stands as opposed to agricultural landscapes.

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Section: Density Of Light Trapsmentioning

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Section: Beneficial Impact Of Lt Mt On Crop Plantsmentioning

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Mass Trapping Lepidopteran Pests with Light Traps, with Focus on Tortricid Forest Pests: What If?

Rhainds

2024

Insects

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“…Light trapping has been successful against wasps in food storage premises (Coch 1970). In isolated field situations a useful degree of pest control has sometimes been achieved by its use (Barrett et al 1971b;Schutte 1972;Cantelo et al 1972;Tedders et al 1972) but it has been unsuccessful on other occasions (e.g., Jones and Thurston 1970;Graham et al 1971;Day et al 1973). Yellow fluorescent boards covered with a sticky material have been effective in controlling the fly, Rhagoletis cerasi L. (Russ et al 1973).…”

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Physical Control of Insects—recent Developments

Banks

1976

Australian Journal of Entomology

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The scope of physical control of insects is summarised and recent developments (post -1969) in the field are reviewed. Physical control though offering great potential as a component of integrated control systems is not yet in widespread use against field pests. In stored commodity protection physical methods are of increasing importance and may completely replace current chemically-based protectant methods. Direct insect control by ionising radiation has received much attention but large scale application appears doubtful. Application of many physical methods is restricted by high capital cost and lack of post-treatment protection. A bibliography of recent reviews is given.

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“…Barrett, Day & Hartsock (4) found that when adult European corn borer popula tions were low, one to five blacklight traps adjacent to sweet corn plots protected the crop from borer damage. There were, however, no significant differences in damaged plants between lighted and unlighted plots when com borer populations were high (18-51 % infestation).…”

Section: Light Trapsmentioning

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Recent Research Advances on the European Corn Borer in North America

Ta¹

1975

Annu. Rev. Entomol.

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The recorded distribution of the European corn borer, Osttinia nubilalis, has not changed signifi cantly since Brindley & Dicke's review in 1963 (15), except along the southernmost portion of its range. Annual articles presenting the status of the European corn borer (3) indicate that each year the borer spreads into a few previously uninfested counties within known infested states. Sparks & Young (116) made a survey and found 34 of 35 counties infested in southern Georgia and lThe survey of the literature pertaining to this review was concluded in March 1974.

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Reduction in Insect Damage to Cucumbers, Tomatoes, and Sweet Corn Through Use of Electric Light Traps1

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Mass Trapping Lepidopteran Pests with Light Traps, with Focus on Tortricid Forest Pests: What If?

Mass Trapping Lepidopteran Pests with Light Traps, with Focus on Tortricid Forest Pests: What If?

Physical Control of Insects—recent Developments

Recent Research Advances on the European Corn Borer in North America

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