Field trapping of tomato moth, Tuta absoluta with pheromone traps

Miguel Michereff Filho, Evaldo F. Vilela, Athula B. Attygalle, Jerrold Meinwald, Aleš Svatoš, Gulab N. Jham

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Abstract

Field evaluations demonstrate that the addition of the minor pheromone component (3E,8Z)-tetradecadien-1-yl acetate to the major component (3E,8Z,11Z)-tetradecatrien-1-yl acetate does not significantly increase the trap catches of Tuta absoluta males in the field. The triene acetate itself is highly attractive, catching about 869 ± 255 males per trap in three consecutive nights. The addition of two isomers of the minor component (3E,8Z)-tetradecadien-1-yl acetate, (3E,11Z)-tetradecadienyl-yl acetate and (8Z, 11Z)-tetradecadien-1-yl acetate, to the major component (3E,8Z,11Z)- tetradecatrien-1-yl acetate also did not significantly alter the number of the males caught in the traps.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)875-881
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Chemical Ecology
Volume26
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000

Keywords

  • Field trapping
  • Gelechiidae
  • Lepidoptera
  • Pheromone
  • Scrobipalpuloides absoluta
  • South American tomato moth
  • Tuta absoluta

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