Wireworm Baiting: Use of Solar Energy to Enhance Early Detection of Melanotus depressus, M. verberans, and Aeolus mellillus in Midwest Cornfields12

Ward, R. H.; Keaster, Armon J.

doi:10.1093/jee/70.4.403

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“…Additionally, we achieved higher trap catches by closing the traps with a lid. Closing the trap is likely to stimulate seed germination and raise the temperature, as Ward & Keaster (1977) observed in traps covered with polyethylene. An increased temperature in traps may attract wireworms from a wider radius around the trap, especially in spring when soil temperatures are low.…”

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Seasonal fluctuations in Agriotes spp. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) at two sites in Austria and the efficiency of bait trap designs for monitoring wireworm populations in the soil

2010

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Wireworms, the larvae of Agriotes spp. (Coleoptera: Elateridae), cause serious damage to a number of crops. To develop an effective management strategy, a reliable method of estimating the abundance of the Agriotes species is needed. This paper describes a trapping study of Agriotes in parts of Austria. Over two years, adult click beetles were monitored using YATLOR sex pheromone traps and wireworms were monitored using bait traps. Also, the efficiency of bait traps with different numbers of perforations was compared. In a location in Upper Austria, A. lineatus was by far the most common species and in a location in lower Austria, the majority of beetles caught were A. ustulatus. A. brevis was common in Upper Austria, but nearly absent in Lower Austria. There were large discrepancies between the species compositions of the adults and larvae caught, suggesting a low efficiency of the bait traps. More larvae were caught in bait traps with greater numbers of holes, but the difference was not statistically significant. Further improvements in bait traps or another sampling method will be needed to accurately estimate the density of wireworms.

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“…Considerable effort has been put into developing bait traps for wireworms (e.g. Ward & Keaster 1977, Kirfman et al 1986, Parker 1994, Simmons et al 1998 and pheromone traps for adult click beetles (e.g. Tóth et al 2001, Subchev et al 2004, Subchev et al 2006).…”

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Seasonal fluctuations in Agriotes spp. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) at two sites in Austria and the efficiency of bait trap designs for monitoring wireworm populations in the soil

2010

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“…The container trap method was chosen for this survey because of its efficiency and replicability based on a comparison by Kirfman et al (6) with the conventional solarenhanced trapping technique (14). They determined it to be more time-efficient in terms of trap placement, retrieval and processing.…”

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Survey of Wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Virginia and North Carolina Peanut Fields1

1992

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Sixty peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) fields were surveyed for wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in the Virginia-North Carolina peanut area in 1989 and 1990. A series ofbaited container soil traps was placed in each field once in early June and again in early August for a total of 605 trap-weeks (trap per field per week = 1 trapweek)). Trap capture was similarly low in both states and in both years with a total of 59 wireworm specimens collected: an average of one wireworm per field per year. Species composition was similarly diverse with Conoderus vespertinus F. comprising 58 percent, C. lividus De Geer 20 percent, Glyphonx sp. 8 percent, Melanotus communis Gyllenhal 7 percent, C. sp. 5 percent, and C. bellus Say 2 percent. Even though wireworm captures were low, moderate to high levels of pod damage were observed. The large number of southern com rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber) adults detected on nearby pheromone baited sticky traps indicated that most pod damage was not by wireworm but by southern com rootworm. Implications are that although several wireworm species can be found in association with peanut, they appear to play only a minor role in peanut pod damage in the survey area.

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“…Perhaps surprisingly, this is not a widely adopted method, most likely because it produces only semiquantitative information, as the area from which larvae have been attracted is difficult to measure. However, baits have been developed for wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) (Ward & Keaster 1977) and a bait consisting of a 1 : 1 mixture of wheat and corn was used by Belcher (1989) to estimate the proportion of corn fields infested with wireworms in Missouri. An example of the kind of data one can obtain by this method is given in Fig.…”

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Sampling Insects from Roots

Gange¹

2005

Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems

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Wireworm Baiting: Use of Solar Energy to Enhance Early Detection of Melanotus depressus, M. verberans, and Aeolus mellillus in Midwest Cornfields12

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Seasonal fluctuations in Agriotes spp. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) at two sites in Austria and the efficiency of bait trap designs for monitoring wireworm populations in the soil

Seasonal fluctuations in Agriotes spp. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) at two sites in Austria and the efficiency of bait trap designs for monitoring wireworm populations in the soil

Survey of Wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in Virginia and North Carolina Peanut Fields1

Sampling Insects from Roots

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