Proposed Method for Determining Density of Traps Required to Reduce an Insect Population
- 1 August 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 64 (4) , 872-877
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/64.4.872
Abstract
A method for determining the density of traps required to reduce the native population of a certain insect by a given amount is proposed. This method involves measuring the characteristics of a single trap, under field conditions, and determining an empirical trap-density function. This trap-density function accounts for changes in trap performance when operated with overlapping trapping patterns at various trap densities, and in some instances may be used for other traps having similarly shaped trapping patterns.Keywords
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