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1 December 2008 Monitoring for Exotic Spodoptera Species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Florida
Robert L. Meagher, Julieta Brambila, Edward Hung
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Abstract

Trapping studies were conducted in 2 Florida locations to determine if 3 Old World Spodoptera Guenée species were present. Commercially-produced lures for S. exempta (Walker), S. littoralis (Boisduval), and S. litura (F.), plus a S. litura lure made by the USDA-APHIS-CPHST laboratory at Otis ANGB in Massachusetts, were used with plastic Unitraps and placed near 2 orchid nurseries in Lake and Miami-Dade counties. One S. litura male moth was identified from collections made in Apr 2007; no other exotic species were found in either location. However, thousands of resident species were collected, including S. albula (Walker) (= S. sunia Guenée), S. dolichos (F.), S. eridania (Stoll), S. exigua (Hübner), (J. E. Smith), and S. pulchella (Herrich-Schäffer). This study exposed the amount of labor and level of technical knowledge needed for scientists involved in finding exotic Spodoptera species.

Robert L. Meagher, Julieta Brambila, and Edward Hung "Monitoring for Exotic Spodoptera Species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Florida," Florida Entomologist 91(4), 517-522, (1 December 2008). https://doi.org/10.1653/0015-4040-91.4.517
Published: 1 December 2008
KEYWORDS
exotic species
orchid nurseries
pheromones
Spodoptera
trapping
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