| Title: | Reduction in an almond moth Ephestia cautella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) population by means of mating disruption |
| Author(s): | Ryne C; Ekeberg M; Jonzen N; Oehlschlager C; Lofstedt C; Anderbrant O; |
| Address: | "Chemical Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Department of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden. Camilla.Ryne@ekol.lu.se" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1526-498X (Print) 1526-498X (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Pheromone-based mating disruption of the almond moth (Ephestia cautella) (Walk.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) was carried out in a chocolate factory in Sweden. Population monitoring was conducted with pheromone-baited traps and water traps. Pheromone traps showed a 94% catch reduction, and monitoring with water traps showed a significant decrease in total catch (5.0 and 1.6 individuals per trap per week before and during treatment respectively). The significance of the results was tested by fitting the observed data to a first-order autoregressive model. This made it possible to test the data with a 95% confidence interval, comparing trap catches before mating disruption treatment with trapping data during the experiment. It is suggested that this statistical approach may be used more frequently in mating disruption experiments where it is extremely difficult to control external factors and therefore equally difficult to use a comparable control plot to evaluate the treatment" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Female Male Moths/*drug effects/physiology Pest Control, Biological/*methods Pheromones/*pharmacology Regression Analysis Sexual Behavior, Animal/*drug effects Sweden Water;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineRyne, Camilla Ekeberg, Mats Jonzen, Niclas Oehlschlager, Cam Lofstedt, Christer Anderbrant, Olle eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2006/07/13 Pest Manag Sci. 2006 Oct; 62(10):912-8. doi: 10.1002/ps.1256" |
