Journal of Economic Entomology (2018) 111, 277-282

Marc Rhainds, Pierre Therrien, Louis Morneau and Gaetan Leclair (2018)
Bivariate pheromone-based monitoring of spruce budworm larvae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Journal of Economic Entomology 111 (1), 277-282
Abstract: A bivariate approach to pheromone-based monitoring is developed for the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). The approach uses captures of males at pheromone traps for generation t (male_t) as a transitive term between densities of overwintering larvae in consecutive generations (L2_t, L2_t+1), based on a large data set including >2,000 observations in the province of Quebec (QC) between the interval 1992 and 2010. Although estimates of L2_t and male_t are autocorrelated to some extent, multi-year assessments of larval densities combined with pheromone trapping are justified by the complementarity (statistical significance) of both L2_t and male_t in predicting L2_t+1 for 15 of 18 pairs of 2-yr intervals. Bivariate pheromone-based thresholds (number of males corresponding to specific transitions in larval densities between L2_t and L2_t+1) are reported for each year. As expected, thresholds for stable populations (L2_t = L2_t+1) were lower than for populations with positive growth rate (L2_t < L2_t+1). The thresholds derived in this study have limited heuristic value; however, because they vary greatly from year to year.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
pheromones/attractants/traps

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Choristoneura fumiferana