| Title: | Field Evaluation of Potential Pheromone Lures for Lygus lineolaris (Hemiptera: Miridae) in the Mid-South |
| Address: | "USDA-ARS Southern Insect Research Management Unit, 141 Experiment Station Road, Stoneville, MS 38776, USA. Natural Resources Institute University of Greenwich, Chatham, ME4 4TB Maritime, Kent, UK" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1536-2442 (Electronic) 1536-2442 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Plant bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) are phytophagous pests of cultivated plants around the world. In the mid-South region of the United States, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) is a primary pest of cotton, and causes economic damage. Previously published research about the volatiles produced by members of the genus Lygus, and other closely related groups, indicated that they produce blends of hexyl butyrate, (E)-2-hexenyl butyrate, and (E)-4-oxo-2-hexenal. Varying ratios of the three compounds were loaded into pipette tips, and screened in combination with non-UV white sticky cards for attractiveness to field populations of L. lineolaris in Mississippi. Field screening indicated that a lure expressing a ratio of 4:10:7 was the most effective at collecting L. lineolaris, and collected similar numbers of individuals to those reported in other studies using traps baited with live virgin insects over a similar period of time. Availability of a synthetic pheromone usable in the climate of the mid-South will enable broader scale landscape level monitoring for populations of L. lineolaris before movement into cotton fields and resulting economic damage" |
| Keywords: | Animals *Chemotaxis Female Heteroptera/*drug effects *Insect Control Male Mississippi Pheromones/*pharmacology Miridae pheromone sticky trap tarnished plant bug; |
| Notes: | "MedlineParys, Katherine A Hall, David R eng 2017/04/20 J Insect Sci. 2017 Jan 1; 17(1):25. doi: 10.1093/jisesa/iew109" |
