| Title: | Trapping Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs: 'The Nazgul' Lure and Kill Nets |
| Author(s): | Suckling DM; Mazzoni V; Roselli G; Levy MC; Ioriatti C; Stringer LD; Zeni V; Deromedi M; Anfora G; |
| Address: | "Technology Transfer Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, I-38010 San Michele all'Adige, Italy. The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd., PB 4704, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand. School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1072, New Zealand. Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, I-38010 San Michele all'Adige, Italy. Biological and Biotechnical Control Agency, 00123 Rome, Italy. Center of Agriculture, Food and Environment (C3A), University of Trento, I-38010 San Michele all'Adige, Italy. Kallisto, Mt Pleasant, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2075-4450 (Print) 2075-4450 (Electronic) 2075-4450 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Improvements to current brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys, surveillance and killing systems are needed to improve detection sensitivity and to reduce pesticide use. Detection of BMSB in New Zealand with traps is reliant on sticky panels with aggregation pheromone, which are low cost but inefficient compared with beating foliage. Trapping for BMSB adults and nymphs was conducted daily with lethal traps consisting of an aggregation pheromone-baited-coat hanger covered with dark-colored long-lasting insecticide-treated mesh, we termed 'The Nazgul', based on its sinister appearance. A deep tray lined with white plastic was attached centrally at the base for collecting the dead BMSB. The lethal traps killed and caught up to 3.5-fold more nymphs and adult BMSB than identically-baited sticky panels in the 3 weeks of deployment, and provided a snapshot of phenology by instar. We expect that lure-and-kill stations could contribute to the suppression of a delimited population and could be included as part of a semiochemical-based eradication program. Attracting and killing females and nymphs, thus removing future offspring, could contribute to population suppression during an eradication" |
| Keywords: | Halyomorpha halys aggregation pheromone ghost trap hedgerow lure and kill trap; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINESuckling, David Maxwell Mazzoni, Valerio Roselli, Gerardo Levy, Mary Claire Ioriatti, Claudio Stringer, Lloyd Damien Zeni, Valeria Deromedi, Marco Anfora, Gianfranco eng Switzerland 2019/12/06 Insects. 2019 Nov 30; 10(12):433. doi: 10.3390/insects10120433" |
