Athanassiou, Christos, Bray, Daniel P., Hall, David R ORCID: 0000-0002-7887-466X, Phillips, Charles and Vassilakos, Thomas N. (2018) Factors affecting field performance of pheromone traps for tobacco beetle, Lasioderma serricorne and tobacco moth, Ephestia elutella. Journal of Pest Science, 91 (4). pp. 1381-1391. ISSN 1612-4758 (Print), 1612-4766 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-0987-8)

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Abstract

Tobacco beetle, Lasioderma serricorne (F.) (Coleoptera: Anobiidae), is one of the most serious insect pests of stored tobacco and traps baited with the female-produced sex pheromone, serricornin, are used for monitoring the pest. In two trapping experiments carried out in tobacco warehouses in Greece, two commercially-available trap and lure systems for L. serricorne were found to be equally effective in terms of numbers of beetles trapped. In contrast to previous reports, anhydroserricornin was unattractive and lures containing serricornin and anhydroserricornin were less attractive than lures containing serricornin only. The sex pheromone of the other main insect pest of tobacco, Ephestia elutella (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), could be added to the lures without affecting the attractiveness of either pheromones to their respective species. Lures remained attractive for at least four weeks under field conditions, and, in laboratory tests, release of pheromone could still be detected after 30 days at 27°C. The stereoisomeric composition of the serricornin in the two commercial lures was similar with high proportions of the attractive (4S,6S,7S)-isomer. The proportion of the (4S,6S,7R)-isomer was low and this is known to reduce the attractiveness.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	pheromone, traps, tobacco beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, tobacco moth, Ephestia elutella
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Agriculture, Health & Environment Department
Last Modified:	27 Apr 2020 11:06
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/20095

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