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1 February 2013 Influence of Trap Design on Upwind Flight Behavior and Capture of Female Grape Berry Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) With aKairomone Lure
Dong H. Cha, Stephen P. Hesler, Charles E. Linn Jr, Aijun Zhang, Peter E. A. Teal, Alan L. Knight, Wendell L. Roelofs, Gregory M. Loeb
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Abstract

Oil-coated clear panel traps baited with a host plant-based kairomone lure have successfully been used for monitoring female grape berry moth, Paralobesia viteana (Clemens) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), but low capture rates as well as difficulty in servicing these traps makes them unsuitable for commercial use. We compared the performance of different trap designs in a flight tunnel and in a vineyard by using a 7-component synthetic kairomone blend, with a focus on trap visual cues. In flight tunnel experiments, a clear delta trap performed better than other traps. When we tested clear delta, green delta, or clear wing traps baited with a cut grape shoot, >50% of female grape berry moths made complete upwind flights. However, the clear delta trap was the only design that resulted in female moths entering the trap. Similar results were observed when females were tested with different traps (clear delta, green delta, white delta, clear wing, or green wing traps) baited with the kairomone lure. Adding a visual pattern that mimicked grape shoots to the outside surface of the clear delta trap resulted in 66% of the females that made upwind flights entering the trap. However, the positive effect of adding a visual pattern to the trap was not observed in a vineyard setting, where clear delta traps with or without a visual pattern caught similar numbers of females. Still, the number of male and female grape berry moths captured in clear delta traps with or without a visual pattern was not significantly different from the number of male and female grape berry moths captured in panel traps, suggesting that the use of these delta traps could be a less cumbersome alternative to oil-coated panel traps for monitoring female grape berry moth.

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Dong H. Cha, Stephen P. Hesler, Charles E. Linn Jr, Aijun Zhang, Peter E. A. Teal, Alan L. Knight, Wendell L. Roelofs, and Gregory M. Loeb "Influence of Trap Design on Upwind Flight Behavior and Capture of Female Grape Berry Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) With aKairomone Lure," Environmental Entomology 42(1), 150-157, (1 February 2013). https://doi.org/10.1603/EN12233
Received: 8 August 2012; Accepted: 11 December 2012; Published: 1 February 2013
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KEYWORDS
flight tunnel
integrated pest management
kairomone
olfactory cue
visual cue
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