Mobile mating disruption of light-brown apple moths using pheromone-treated sterile Mediterranean fruit flies

Pest Management Science

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1004-1014

  Suckling, David M ^a   Woods, Bill ^b   Mitchell, Vanessa J ^a   Twidle, Andrew ^a   Lacey, Ian ^b   Jang, Eric B ^c   Wallace, Andrew R ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

(E) 11 tetradecenyl acetate; Light brown apple moth; Mating disruption; Medfly; Sex pheromone

Indexed keywords

11 TETRADECENYL ACETATE; 11-TETRADECENYL ACETATE; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SEX PHEROMONE;

FLY; FRUIT; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LONGEVITY; MATING DISRUPTION; MORTALITY; MOTH; SEX PHEROMONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEMALE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; METHODOLOGY; MOTH; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; CERATITIS CAPITATA; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; MALE; MOTHS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SEX ATTRACTANTS;

AUSTRALIA; CALIFORNIA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; UNITED STATES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; EPIPHYAS POSTVITTANA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 79960200947     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.2150     Document Type: Article

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