Pheromone mating disruption offers selective management options for key pests
By S. Welter, C. Pickel, J. Millar, F. Cave, R. Steenwyk, J. Dunley. 2005
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The direct management of insect pests using pheromones for mating disruption, or “attract and kill” approaches, can provide excellent suppression of key lepidopteran pests in agriculture. Important successes to date include codling moth in pome fruit, oriental fruit moth in peaches and nectarines, tomato pinworm in vegetables, pink bollworm in cotton and omnivorous leafroller in vineyards. Large-scale implementation projects have yielded significant reductions in pesticide use while maintaining acceptably low crop-damage levels. Because of some difficulties with high populations of pests, these programs should not be viewed as stand-alone strategies but rather as one tactic within a suite of integrated pest management options.
Subfields: Insect Science
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- Pest Management in Food Systems: An Economic Perspective (2012, background): “Pheromone-based pest control, the release of pheromones to either attract and trap pests or to disrupt mating cycles and prevent reproduction, is another set of alternatives to pesticides that has demonstrated some success (59).”
- Ecosmart Biorational Insecticides: Alternative Insect Control Strategies (2012, background): “For detailed information, see Wirth et al. (2005) and Federici (2010). As a rule, bacterial control agents are less likely to provoke resistance because their mode of action is more complex (Wirth et al.”