| Title: | Visual responses of Musca domestica to pheromone impregnated targets in poultry units |
| Author(s): | Chapman JW; Knapp JJ; Goulson D; |
| Address: | "Division of Biodiversity and Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK. JWC@Soton.ac.uk" |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1999.00147.x |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0269-283X (Print) 0269-283X (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Field trials investigating the effect of visual cues on catches of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) at toxic targets impregnated with the female sex pheromone (Z)-9-tricosene, were conducted in a caged-layer deep-pit poultry unit in southern England. Targets treated with azamethiphos and baited with 2.5 g of 40% (Z)-9-tricosene impregnated beads caught significantly greater numbers of M. domestica than control targets. The greater attractiveness of the pheromone impregnated targets persisted for at least 5 weeks. The addition of longitudinal black stripes, or a regularly spaced pattern of black spots, to the white targets had no effect on catch rates. However, a pattern of clustered black spots, designed to imitate groups of feeding M. domestica, significantly increased target catches; this effect was particularly pronounced in the targets impregnated with (Z)-9-tricosene. Trials comparing the attractiveness of white and fluorescent yellow pheromone-treated targets under two different lighting regimes indicated that M. domestica does not have a significant preference for either colour. The implications of these results in relation to the control of M. domestica populations in poultry units are discussed" |
| Keywords: | "*Alkenes/*chemistry Animals Behavior, Animal Color Female *Houseflies/physiology *Pheromones Poultry Vision, Ocular;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineChapman, J W Knapp, J J Goulson, D eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 1999/09/14 Med Vet Entomol. 1999 May; 13(2):132-8. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1999.00147.x" |
