Comparative Effectiveness of Sticky Red Spheres and Pherocon® Am Standard Traps 1 for Monitoring Apple Maggot Flies 2 in Commercial Orchards
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 8 (4) , 696-700
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/8.4.696
Abstract
In 16 commercial apple orchards in Massachusetts in 1978, unbaited, sticky-coated, 8.5-cm, dark red wooden spheres captured apple maggot flies, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), at consistently earlier dates and in consistently greater weekly (and total) numbers than did Pherocon® AM Standard pre-baited yellow rectangle traps. Furthermore, maggot fly captures on the spheres were much. more highly correlated with percent of maggot injury to fruit at harvest than were captures on the Pherocon traps. Finally, the spheres were more selective and less costly than the Pherocon traps.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Female Apple Maggot Captures and Injury to Unsprayed Apples123Journal of Economic Entomology, 1978