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Evaluation of trap deployment patterns for behavioural control of apple maggot flies (Dipt., Tephritidae)
Author(s) -
Prokopy R. J.,
Mittenthal R. E.,
Wright S. E.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of applied entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.795
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1439-0418
pISSN - 0931-2048
DOI - 10.1046/j.1439-0418.2003.00736.x
Subject(s) - rhagoletis , tephritidae , biology , horticulture , cultivar , apple tree , fruit tree , maggot , ceratitis capitata , botany , pest analysis
We evaluated three different deployment patterns of sticky red sphere traps, baited with a five‐component blend of synthetic attractive fruit odour and placed on perimeter apple trees bordering adjacent habitat (front‐row trees), for control of apple maggot flies, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), in small plots of apple trees (about 30 × 30 m) in Massachusetts commercial apple orchards. Degree of fly penetration from front‐row to interior apple trees was assessed for R. pomonella of wild origin and for marked adults released in habitats adjacent to front‐row trees. Traps placed 10 and 5 m apart on front‐row trees or grouped on a single central front‐row tree performed as well as grower‐applied insecticide sprays in preventing penetration of plots by wild and released flies and in preventing fruit injury. This was equally true for plots whose front‐row trees consisted of cultivars comparatively susceptible to apple maggot as for plots whose front‐row trees were comprised of comparatively tolerant cultivars. It was also true for each seasonal period during which sampling for treatment performance occurred.