| Title: | "Development of Sterile Insect Technique for Control of the European Grapevine Moth, Lobesia botrana, in Urban Areas of Chile" |
| Author(s): | Simmons GS; Salazar Sepulveda MC; Fuentes Barrios EA; Idalsoaga Villegas M; Medina Jimenez RE; Garrido Jerez AR; Henderson R; Donoso Riffo H; |
| Address: | "United States Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Science and Technology, Salinas, CA 93905, USA. Servicio Agricola y Ganadero, Santiago 8330336, Chile" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2075-4450 (Print) 2075-4450 (Electronic) 2075-4450 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The European grapevine moth, a Palearctic pest, was first detected in the Americas in 2008. Its establishment in Chile presented production and export issues for grapes and other fruits, and a national control campaign was launched. Urban areas next to agricultural production areas were recognized as a challenge for effective control. In 2015, a SIT laboratory was established in Arica, Chile to evaluate its potential for urban control. Progress included the development and evaluation of artificial diets, a mass-rearing of 75,000 moths/week, confirmation of 150 Gy as an operational dose for inherited sterility, and releases of sterile moths in a 25 ha urban area next to fruit production areas. Season-long releases demonstrated that high overflooding ratios were achieved early in the season but decreased with a large increase in the wild moth population. Sterile moth quality was consistently high, and moths were observed living in the field up to 10 days and dispersing up to 800 m. Recommendations for further development of the SIT include conducting cage and field studies to evaluate overflooding ratios and mating competitiveness, measuring of infestation densities in release and no-release areas, and conducting trials to evaluate combining SIT with compatible integrated pest management (IPM) tactics such as fruit stripping and use of mating disruption" |
| Keywords: | area-wide control artificial diets grape pests invasive pests mass-rearing; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINESimmons, Gregory S Salazar Sepulveda, Melissa Cristal Fuentes Barrios, Edith Alejandra Idalsoaga Villegas, Marcela Medina Jimenez, Raul Enrique Garrido Jerez, Alvaro Rodrigo Henderson, Ruth Donoso Riffo, Hernan eng Review Switzerland 2021/05/01 Insects. 2021 Apr 22; 12(5):378. doi: 10.3390/insects12050378" |
