| Title: | Exploring an Odor-Baited 'Trap Bush' Approach to Aggregate Plum Curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Injury in Blueberries |
| Author(s): | Rodriguez-Saona C; Nielsen A; Shapiro-Ilan D; Tewari S; Kyryczenko-Roth V; Firbas N; Leskey T; |
| Address: | "P.E. Marucci Center for Blueberry & Cranberry Research, Rutgers University, Chatsworth, NJ 08019, USA. crodriguez@njaes.rutgers.edu. Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Rutgers University, Bridgeton, NJ 08302, USA. nielsen@njaes.rutgers.edu. USDA-ARS, Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory, Byron, GA 31008, USA. david.shapiro@ars.usda.gov. Corteva Agriscience, Fresno, CA 93706, USA. sunil.tewari@corteva.com. P.E. Marucci Center for Blueberry & Cranberry Research, Rutgers University, Chatsworth, NJ 08019, USA. vera.kyryczenko@rutgers.edu. P.E. Marucci Center for Blueberry & Cranberry Research, Rutgers University, Chatsworth, NJ 08019, USA. nicolas.firbas@gmail.com. USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, WV 25430, USA. tracy.leskey@ars.usda.gov" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2075-4450 (Print) 2075-4450 (Electronic) 2075-4450 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "This 2-year study (2013-2014) assessed the efficacy of an odor-baited 'trap bush' approach to aggregate plum curculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar, adult injury, i.e., number of oviposition-scared fruit, in four commercial highbush blueberry farms in New Jersey (USA). In each farm, we compared fruit injury in bushes baited with grandisoic acid and benzaldehyde along the perimeter of trap-bush plots versus unbaited bushes in control plots. We also measured the amount of fruit injury in neighboring bushes (i.e., spillover effect) and in the plots' interior. In both years, the amount of fruit injury by C. nenuphar adults was greater on and near odor-baited bushes in trap-bush plots compared with those on and near unbaited bushes in control plots, indicative of aggregation. Injury in unbaited bushes neighboring trap bushes was often greater than unbaited bushes in control plots, providing some evidence for a spillover effect. However, no difference in fruit injury was found between interior trap-bush and control plots. Therefore, odor-baited trap bushes can be used in blueberries to manipulate C. nenuphar foraging behavior, i.e., aggregate adults, without compromising injury in field interiors. Under this approach, insecticides could then be targeted at only a few (perimeter-row) bushes within fields rather than entire fields" |
| Keywords: | Conotrachelus nenuphar Vaccinium corymbosum aggregation pheromone semiochemicals weevil; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINERodriguez-Saona, Cesar Nielsen, Anne Shapiro-Ilan, David Tewari, Sunil Kyryczenko-Roth, Vera Firbas, Nicolas Leskey, Tracy eng 2012-34381-20108/U.S. Department of Agriculture/ Switzerland 2019/04/24 Insects. 2019 Apr 19; 10(4):113. doi: 10.3390/insects10040113" |
