Plant Protection Bulletin (Taipei) (2006) 48, 297-309

C.C. Tzeng, W.K. Peng and S.S. Kao (2006)
Survey of insect populations in stored rice with blacklight-blue fluorescent light trap
Plant Protection Bulletin (Taipei) 48 (4), 297-309
Abstract: Blacklight-blue fluorescent light traps were set up for collecting pests after the rice from the first crop of 1987 was stored in the granary storehouses of Farmers' Associations at Wurih, Longjing, and Dingfen in central Taiwan. In each storehouse, traps were either in operation everyday and bags were changed every week, or in operation only during the last week of the month and bags were changed after one week. Insects collected in every granary with these two traping methods consisted of Rhyzopertha dominica, Tribolium castaneum, Lophocateres pusillus, Cryptolestes ferrugineus, Oryzaephilus surinamensis, Sitotroga cerealella, Sitophilus oryzae and other Lepidoteran insects. With R. dominica as the predominant species followed by S. cerelella. The numbers for other kinds were small. Insects collected from the storehouses showed similar trends at these three locations. The number of insects collected per week was greater when they were collected one week a month than when they were collected every week each month. Insect number increased as the temperature rose. The number of R. dominica detected in the summer was 10,000 times more than that in the winter.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Tribolium castaneum	Stored grain	Taiwan
	Sitophilus oryzae	Stored grain	Taiwan
	Oryzaephilus surinamensis	Stored grain	Taiwan
	Rhyzopertha dominica	Stored grain	Taiwan
	Lophocateres pusillus	Stored grain	Taiwan
	Sitotroga cerealella	Stored grain	Taiwan
	Cryptolestes ferrugineus	Stored grain	Taiwan