Acoustic attractants enhance trapping success for cane toads

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 366 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Schwarzkopf ◽  
R. A. Alford
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Cane Toad ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
Mating Calls ◽  
The World ◽  
Highly Effective ◽  
Introduced Pest

Cane toads are an introduced pest in many tropical locations around the world, but, surprisingly, there are few methods available for their control. Highly effective trapping may provide a means of controlling toads, either alone or as part of an integrated pest-management scheme. Existing cane toad trap designs use lights to lure insects to traps, and toads enter the traps to feed. Using a large, outdoor experimental arena and playback of cane toad mating calls, we examined the possibility that cane toads, like many other anurans, are attracted to conspecific mating vocalisations. We found that both male and female toads were attracted to quiet (47dB(A) at 1 m) playbacks, whereas only males responded to loud (67dB(A) at 1 m) playbacks with phonotaxis. We also tested whether playbacks broadcast from traps would be useful attractants to traps in the field. We captured three times more toads in traps with playbacks than in traps without playbacks, suggesting that playbacks can be used to enhance trapping success for toads.

scholarly journals New morphological key using male prothoracic leg characters to identify Helicoverpa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) species

2019 ◽  
pp. 1561-1565
Author(s):  
Clerison Regis Perini ◽  
Andres O. Angulo ◽  
Tania Sonia Olivares ◽  
Jonas Andre Arnemann ◽  
Jerson Vanderlei Carus Guedes
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Helicoverpa Zea ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Southern Cone ◽  
Pheromone Traps ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

Since invasion of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) in South America, identification of Helicoverpa species became essential for Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Thus, we worked out on a pictorial key to identify tree important Helicoverpa species that occur in the Southern Cone of America, using new morphological characters from the prothoracic legs. Adult male and female of Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), H. armigera, and Helicoverpa gelotopoeon (Dyar) were used for identification. Prothoracic legs from moths were removed and images were taken (magnification of 25X) with scales and specialized scales. In addition, images (magnification of 50X) of prothoracic legs were used to measure the foretibia and epiphysis. The results showed that measurable characters were more reliable and accurate on male moths than female moths. For this reason, we will show only detailed results of male moths. Foretibia of H. zea were longer than H. gelotopoeon, but shorter than H. armigera. This size is visible with or without scales and specialized scales on males. Here, we show a first detailed description of protibial epiphysis. H. armigera has the longest epiphysis with fore margin pointed and with bristles terminating before the end of epiphysis. This illustrated pictorial key shown some first detailed descriptions of prothoracic legs. These characters are useful on integrated pest management programs of many crops to identify male representatives of Helicoverpa, which are captured on pheromone traps.

scholarly journals Manejo Integrado de Plagas. Del origen conceptual y su desarrollo empírico

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
A. López-Ávila
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
The World

<p>Una mirada crítica al desarrollo histórico del Manejo Integrado de Plagas -MIP- en el mundo, evidencia muchos esfuerzos por definir, conceptualizar y describir el MIP en la agricultura, asi como implementar tales conceptos en el campo de una manera práctica y útil para los productores. </p><p><strong>Integrated Pest Management. The conceptual origin and empirical development</strong></p><p>A historical review of the development of the Integrated Pest Management -IPM- in the world, look highlighted many efforts to define, conceptualize and describe IPM in agriculture, as well as implement these concepts in the field of a practical and useful to producers. </p>

A push-pull integrated pest management scheme for preventing use of parrot nest boxes by invasive Africanized honey bees

2015 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline A. Efstathion ◽  
Paul M. Bardunias ◽  
Janice D. Boyd ◽  
William H. Kern
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
Africanized Honey Bees ◽  
Nest Boxes ◽  
Management Scheme

scholarly journals Integrated pest management: a global reality?

1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Kogan ◽  
Waheed I. Bajwa
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Pest Control ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The expression "Integrated Pest Management" (IPM or MIP in Portuguese) is completing 28 years since it first appeared in press. Since then integrated pest management or integrated pest control has become the paradigm of choice for activities that aim at attenuating the impact of all pests - plant diseases, weeds, and invertebrate or vertebrate animals - in agricultural production, in human and animal health, and in urban or rural structures. Despite the nearly universal acceptance of the concept, its practical application still is rather restricted, varying considerably among geopolitical regions, the nature of the crop, and, mainly, with the commitment and support of responsible governmental entities for programs dedicated to promote adoption of IPM. An objective assessment of the successful incorporation of IPM in agricultural practices is difficult because: a) lack of rigorous criteria to distinguish an IPM program from other traditional pest control activities, b) absence of a broadly based consensus on a definition of IPM, and c) paucity of reliable quantitative surveys of the agricultural area under IPM. Some have used the percentage of pesticide use reduction as a measure of the success of IPM. This measure, however, in the absence of other criteria, may not be appropriate for in some parts of the world introduction of IPM may lead to an increase in pesticide use, not a reduction. In our search to assess the expansion of IPM programs in the world, we concluded that it is essential to first achieve a consensus on the criteria to measure the nature of the program. In general these criteria depend on the level of IPM integration, the nature of the pests, the value of the crop, the availability of alternative control technologies, and the associated economic, environmental, and social risks. In view of the small volume of available data and in the absence of objective measurements of performance criteria, we opted to use as title for this paper an assertion to be questioned: is indeed IPM a global reality?

Electron investigations of rhabdovirus-like particles in mexican bean beetles and crickets

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-379
Author(s):  
J. R. Adams ◽  
G. J Tompkins ◽  
A. M. Heimpel ◽  
E. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Acheta Domesticus ◽  
Epilachna Varivestis ◽  
House Cricket ◽  
Similar Morphology ◽  
Bean Beetle

As part of a continual search for potential pathogens of insects for use in biological control or on an integrated pest management program, two bacilliform virus-like particles (VLP) of similar morphology have been found in the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Mulsant and the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L. ).Tissues of diseased larvae and adults of E. varivestis and all developmental stages of A. domesticus were fixed according to procedures previously described. While the bean beetles displayed no external symptoms, the diseased crickets displayed a twitching and shaking of the metathoracic legs and a lowered rate of activity.Examinations of larvae and adult Mexican bean beetles collected in the field in 1976 and 1977 in Maryland and field collected specimens brought into the lab in the fall and reared through several generations revealed that specimens from each collection contained vesicles in the cytoplasm of the midgut filled with hundreds of these VLP's which were enveloped and measured approximately 16-25 nm x 55-110 nm, the shorter VLP's generally having the greater width (Fig. 1).

Prospects for Integrated Pest Management of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug in Washington Tree Fruits

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth H. Beers ◽  
Adrian Marshall ◽  
Jim Hepler ◽  
Josh Milnes
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug ◽  
Stink Bug ◽  
Tree Fruits
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