Shelterbelts and Boll Weevils
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: a Control Strategy Based on Management of Overwintering Habitat
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Slosser, J. E.; Boring, Emory P.

doi:10.1093/ee/9.1.1

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“…It also showed potential for detecting weevils leaving the field to refuge areas during the harvesting and stalk-destruction. Boll weevil usually leaves cotton fields to nearby areas using them as refuge during the intercropping periods (Rummel and Adkisson, 1970;Slosser and Boring, 1980), possibly, the same place where they will come from at the beginning of the next season. Thus, by knowing the refuge sites, the number of GGTs installed can be maximized near these areas when approaching the planting date for a better knowledge of the weevil population.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…At the end of the season, when stalk destruction is mandatory, adult boll weevils leave the cotton field, moving to surrounding crop fields and native vegetation (Rummel and Adkisson, 1970;Slosser and Boring, 1980;Showler, 2006;Ribeiro et al, 2010). This dispersal activity not only assembles an adult population in the refuge area that may survive the intercropping period, but it may also explain the high capture of weevils in tubes and traps at the season end during harvesting and stalk destruction.…”

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Boll weevil within season and off-season activity monitored using a pheromone-and-glue reusable tube trap

Neves

Torres

Barros

et al. 2018

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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ABSTRACT:The boll weevil colonizes cotton fields as early as cotton squaring, causing significant losses due to feeding and protected development inside fruiting structures throughout crop phenology. Successful control depends on control of adults and their accurate detection when they colonize the crops. The commercial trap and boll weevil attract-and-control tubes (BWACT) are the only available tools to monitor and attract-and-kill boll weevil, despite limitation in efficacy, and insecticide in BWACT is not allowed in organic production. A grandlure-and-glue reusable and insecticide-free tube (GGT) made with polyvinyl chloride tube, smeared with entomological glue, and lured with pheromone was tested to detect boll weevil activity across various seasons. Boll weevil showed activity during growing season and off-season from 2009 to 2012 in the Semiarid and with higher numbers captured in GGT in comparisons to commercial traps. GGT was able to detect early weevils in the field right after planting. Further, the overall averages resulted in 34-, 16.8-, and 7.5-times more weevils captured in GGTs compared to the traps during stalk destruction in the Semiarid 2011 and Cerrado season 2012/13 and during the harvesting period in the Cerrado season 2011/12, respectively. Therefore, boll weevils were captured actively during season and off-season and early captures obtained in GGT compared to traps showed a better correlation between captures and square damage.

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Boll weevil within season and off-season activity monitored using a pheromone-and-glue reusable tube trap

Neves

Torres

Barros

et al. 2018

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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“…Despite the relatively good tolerance of diapausing weevils to low winter temperatures (Kostal & Simek, 1996), suitable shelters are indispensable to avoid desiccation and/or freezing during the aestivohibernation period. As in C. nenuphar (Lafleur et al, 1987), and A. grandis (Slosser & Boring, 1980), the litter of dry leaves on the ground is the most important microhabitat for overwintering in A. pomorum (Korchagin, 1978;Tret'yakov, 1991). However, some weevils could also be found under the rough bark of different tree species, such as Malus sp., Pyrus sp., Cerasus sp.…”

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Selection of hibernation sites by Anthonomus pomorum: preferences and ecological consequences

Toepfer

Dorn

2000

Entomologia Exp Applicata

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The apple blossom weevil, Anthonomus pomorum (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), has a long period of aestivo‐hibernation in the adult stage lasting from summer to early spring of the following year. Potential hibernation sites within an apple orchard consist of high‐stem rough‐bark trees or dwarf smooth‐bark trees. Field release‐recapture experiments in 2 consecutive years showed that 64 and 47% of the weevils remained in the vicinity of the release sites in an area of high‐stem trees and dwarf trees, respectively. The dispersing weevils moved over an average distance of 5.5 m in the dwarf tree area, as compared to 3.8 m in the high‐stem tree area. The prevalent direction of dispersal was along tree rows in both areas. Some weevils displayed, after release in mid‐July, a directional dispersal to the adjacent forests. Others, released in the dwarf tree area, dispersed towards the area of high‐stem rough‐bark apple trees. Experiments simulating various hibernation sites demonstrated that the litter of dry leaves was the most preferred overwintering shelter, yielding a relatively high survival rate. Branches with rough bark ranked second, while branches with smooth bark, grass and pure soil were not favourable for overwintering. Flight tendency in newly emerged weevils of summer generation was significantly higher in June/July than in August/September. This corresponds to the dispersal behaviour in the field. The timing of spring colonisation of apple trees was similar for weevils overwintering within the orchard and for those from outside. These results suggest that modern, dwarf apple orchards offer unfavourable conditions for overwintering, but that the relatively small proportion of weevils which manage to reach the adjacent forests find optimal hibernation sites there.

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“…Hardwood litter was more conducive to overwintering success than conifer litter. Similarly, the boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) successfully overwintered in hardwood litter but not in conifer litter (Bottrell et al, 1972;Slosser and Boring, 1980). Shelterbelts contribute to improved soil moisture relationships within the crop field protected by the shelterbelt in two ways: (1) reductions in wind speed reduce evaporation from the soil surface, leaving more water for crop development and (2) low-density field shelterbelts create a broad zone of increased snow deposition across the field on the leeward side of a shelterbelt, leading to an increase in available soil moisture (Kort, 1988;Scholten, 1988).…”

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“…Predators, including humans, recognize the advantages of hunting along a shelterbelt (Cable and Cook, 1990). Predatorprey relationships of crop pests and natural predators may be influenced, positively or negatively, by the availability of overwintering habitat (Slosser and Boring, 1980). Control of wind and water erosion by systems of shelterbelts has far reaching consequences on the offsite costs associated with erosion, including air and water quality, which impact human health (Huszar and Piper, 1986;Williams and Young, 1999).…”

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Ecological Development and function of Shelterbelts in Temperate North America

Mize

Brandle

Schoeneberger

et al. 2008

Advances in Agroforestry

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As the world's population continues to expand, the pressure on farmland, both from expansion of urban areas (United Nations, 2002) and from a need to produce more food and fiber (Hewitt and Smith, 1995; Gardner, 1996), will increase. In direct competition with the increasing demand for more food and fiber is a growing public desire for conservation of natural systems and a focus on quality of life issues (

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Shelterbelts and Boll Weevils 1 : a Control Strategy Based on Management of Overwintering Habitat 2

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Boll weevil within season and off-season activity monitored using a pheromone-and-glue reusable tube trap

Boll weevil within season and off-season activity monitored using a pheromone-and-glue reusable tube trap

Selection of hibernation sites by Anthonomus pomorum: preferences and ecological consequences

Ecological Development and function of Shelterbelts in Temperate North America

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