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1 April 2008 Effectiveness of Attract-and-Kill Systems Using Methyl Eugenol Incorporated with Neonicotinoid Insecticides Against the Oriental Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Yi-Yuan Chuang, Roger F. Hou
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Laboratory bioassays and field trials were conducted to evaluate an “attract-and-kill” system using methyl eugenol (ME) with neonicotinoid insecticides against male oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae). In laboratory bioassays, mortality of male flies resulting from the conventional toxicant, naled was 98.3–100% at 24 through 72 h after treatment, whereas the neonicotinoid insecticides imidacloprid and acetamiprid caused only ≈60–80% at 24 through 72 h after treatment. In the assays of residual effect, naled was persistent up to 96 wk, whereas imidacloprid or acetamiprid was persistent up to 150 wk, resulting in 38.9 or 61.2% male mortality, respectively. Imidacloprid, in particular, caused a delayed lethal effect on flies. In another experiment, male mortality within 28 wk from clothianidin, another neonicotinoid insecticide, was ≈80% after exposure for 24 h, suggesting a delayed lethal effect similar to those treated with imidacloprid, and mortality was up to 91.8%, if observed, 72 h after treatment. In field trials, attractiveness was similar between ME alone and ME incorporated with naled or neonicotinoids, indicating that addition of these insecticides to ME in traps is not repellent to B. dorsalis males. Using an improved wick-typed trap with longer attractiveness for simulating field application, addition of imidacloprid or acetamiprid maintained 40.1 or 64.3% male mortality, respectively, when assayed once every 2 wk from traps placed in orchards for 42 wk without changing the poison, whereas incorporation with naled resulted in as high as 98.1% after 34 wk and ≈80% at 42 wk, indicating that persistence is increased compared with sugarcane fiberboard blocks for carrying poison attractants. This study also suggests that neonicotinoid insecticides could be used as an alternative for broad-spectrum insecticides as toxicants in fly traps.

Yi-Yuan Chuang and Roger F. Hou "Effectiveness of Attract-and-Kill Systems Using Methyl Eugenol Incorporated with Neonicotinoid Insecticides Against the Oriental Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 101(2), 352-359, (1 April 2008). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493(2008)101[352:EOASUM]2.0.CO;2
Received: 11 June 2007; Accepted: 1 December 2007; Published: 1 April 2008
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KEYWORDS
attract-and-kill system
Bactrocera dorsalis
methyl eugenol
neonicotinoid insecticides
oriental fruit fly
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