| Title: | Semiochemical mediated enhancement of males to complement sterile insect technique in management of the tephritid pest Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) |
| Author(s): | Khan MAM; Manoukis NC; Osborne T; Barchia IM; Gurr GM; Reynolds OL; |
| Address: | "Biosecurity and Food Safety, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia. khan@bau.edu.bd. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh. khan@bau.edu.bd. USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Daniel K. Inouye US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo, Hawaii, 96720, USA. Biosecurity and Food Safety, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia. Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (an alliance between NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Locked Bag 588, WaggaWagga, NSW 2678, Australia. ggurr@csu.edu.au. State Key Laboratory for Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China. ggurr@csu.edu.au. Biosecurity and Food Safety, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia. olivia.reynolds@dpi.nsw.gov.au. Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (an alliance between NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Locked Bag 588, WaggaWagga, NSW 2678, Australia. olivia.reynolds@dpi.nsw.gov.au. State Key Laboratory for Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China. olivia.reynolds@dpi.nsw.gov.au" |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-13843-w |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2045-2322 (Electronic) 2045-2322 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt), is the most significant pest of Australia's $9 billion horticulture industry. The sterile insect technique (SIT) and cue-lure (a synthetic analogue of raspberry ketone (RK))-based male annihilation technique (MAT) are two of the most effective management tools against this pest. However, combining these two approaches is considered incompatible as MAT kills sterile and 'wild' males indiscriminately. In the present study we tested the effect of pre-release feeding of B. tryoni on RK on their post-release survival and response to MAT in field cages and in a commercial orchard. In both settings, survival was higher for RK supplemented adults compared to control (i.e. RK denied) adults. A lower number of RK supplemented sterile males were recaptured in MAT baited traps in both the field cages and orchard trials compared to RK denied sterile males. The advantage of this novel 'male replacement' approach (relatively selective mortality of wild males at lure-baited traps while simultaneously releasing sterile males) is increasing the ratio of sterile to wild males in the field population, with potential for reducing the number of sterile males to be released" |
| Keywords: | "*Animal Feed Animals Butanones/*administration & dosage *Dietary Supplements Infertility, Male/*chemically induced Insect Control/*methods Male Tephritidae/*drug effects;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineKhan, Mohammed Abul Monjur Manoukis, Nicholas C Osborne, Terry Barchia, Idris M Gurr, Geoff M Reynolds, Olivia L eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2017/10/19 Sci Rep. 2017 Oct 17; 7(1):13366. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-13843-w" |
