Trapping experiments were conducted during the period of flight activity of the cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cerasi L. in the area of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, during the years 1993–1997 to test several traps alone and in combination with different food attractants. Yellow sticky-coated visual traps were more effective than McPhail-type traps baited with different food attractants. Of the visual traps, the most effective was the yellow Rebell trap. The Rebell trap, provided with a dispenser containing a slow release formulation of ammonium acetate attached to the lower part of the trap, was found to be the most effective of all treatments tested, capturing ≈50% more R. cerasi flies than the Rebell trap without any attractant. Ammonium carbonate dispensers did not increase the performance of Rebell traps. More mature females were captured in Rebell traps baited with or without ammonium acetate than in McPhail-type traps baited with ammonium acetate. This study demonstrates that Rebell traps baited with an ammonium acetate dispenser can provide a more effective tool for monitoring and mass trapping of R. cerasi than the currently used unbaited Rebell traps.
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1 June 2000
Evaluation of Trap Types and Food Attractants for Rhagoletis cerasi (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Byron I. Katsoyannos,
Nikos T. Papadopoulos,
Dimitris Stavridis
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Journal of Economic Entomology
Vol. 93 • No. 3
June 2000
Vol. 93 • No. 3
June 2000
color traps
food lures
Rhagoletis cerasi
synthetic attractants
trapping