Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2008) 10, 75-179

Ksenia S. (Tcheslavskaia) Onufrieva, Kevin W. Thorpe, Andrea D. Hickman, Donna S. Leonard, Victor C. Mastro and E. Anderson Roberts (2008)
Gypsy moth mating disruption in open landscapes
Agricultural and Forest Entomology 10 (3), 75-179
Abstract: 1 Aerial applications of Disrupt II, a plastic laminated flake formulation containing a racemic form of the gypsy moth sex pheromone, disparlure, achieved > 99% reduction of mating among females on individual, isolated trees surrounded by an area cleared of trees.
2 These results support the use of mating disruption to eradicate isolated gypsy moth populations in open landscapes, such as parks, residential areas and commercial settings.
3 Mating success in both treated and untreated areas varied with the initial distance between males and females. When the initial distance between males and females was < 5 cm in an area receiving a dosage of 37.5 g of racemic disparlure per ha, mating success was reduced by 27% compared with a similar deployment in an untreated area. Mating was eliminated in areas treated at the same dosage when males and females were initially deployed 1 m apart but on separate trees.
4 This suggests that mating disruption may not be an effective tactic for gypsy moth eradication in cases where the infestation is concentrated on a small number of trees and males and females are in close proximity in space and time.
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Database assignments for author(s): Ksenia S. (Tcheslavskaia) Onufrieva

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
control - general
pheromones/attractants/traps

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Lymantria dispar