Developing a non‐sticky trap design for monitoring jewel beetles

A series of laboratory and field experiments were performed to assess the responses of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) and other stored-product beetles to pheromone-baited traps and trap components. A commercial Tribolium pitfall trap called the Flit-Trak M2, the predecessor to the Dome trap, was superior in both laboratory and field experiments over the other floor trap designs assessed at capturing walking T. castaneum. In field experiments, Typhaea stercorea (L.) and Ahasverus advena (Stephens) both preferred a sticky trap to the pitfall trap. Although the covered trap is effective at capturing several other species of stored product beetles, the synthetic Tribolium aggregation pheromone lure is critical for the pitfall trap’s efficacy for T. castaneum. Although the food-based trapping oil used in the pitfall trap was not found to be attractive to T. castaneum when assayed alone, it had value as an enhancer of the pheromone bait when the two were used together in the trap. A dust cover modification made to go over the pitfall trap was effective in protecting the trap from dust, although the trap was still vulnerable to dust contamination from sanitation techniques that used compressed air to blow down the mill floors. Capture of T. castaneum in the modified trap performed as well as the standard trap design in a non-dusty area of a flour mill, and was significantly superior over the standard trap in a dusty area. T. castaneum responded in flight outside a flourmill preferentially to multiple funnel traps with pheromone lures compared to traps without pheromone.

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Improving antsurveillance trap design to reduce competitive exclusion

New Zealand Plant Protection ◽

10.30843/nzpp.2010.63.6563 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 63 ◽

pp. 248-253 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

L.D. Stringer ◽

D.M. Suckling ◽

L.T.W. Mattson ◽

L.R. Peacock

Keyword(s):

Food Source ◽

Competitive Exclusion ◽

Sticky Trap ◽

Food Sources ◽

Food Type ◽

Invasive Ant ◽

Trap Design ◽

Multiple Species ◽

Monitoring Traps

The National Invasive Ant Surveillance is conducted annually around ports and other highrisk areas to detect new ant incursions into New Zealand Currently nonsticky foodbaited vials are used to trap ants The ability of a sticky bait trap to trap multiple ant species at baits was tested under the hypothesis that a sticky trap would reduce the role of competitive exclusion at food sources a drawback of food baiting Furthermore the role of food type sugar protein and a combination of both foods on ant catch was examined Although only 4 of traps caught multiple species this incidence was five times greater in the stickybait than foodonly vials The combined food source traps caught ants more often than the single food source traps The refinement of ant monitoring traps will aid surveillance managers in the future

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Development of a Novel Dry, Sticky Trap Design Incorporating Visual Cues for Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology ◽

10.1093/jee/toy097 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 111 (4) ◽

pp. 1775-1779 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

D M Kirkpatrick ◽

L J Gut ◽

J R Miller

Keyword(s):

Visual Cues ◽

Sticky Trap ◽

Drosophila Suzukii ◽

Trap Design

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Detection and monitoring of Drosophila suzukii in raspberry and cherry orchards with volatile organic compounds in the USA and Europe

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-85884-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Nicholas R. Larson ◽

Jaime Strickland ◽

Vonnie D. Shields ◽

Antonio Biondi ◽

Lucia Zappalà ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Volatile Organic Compounds ◽

Organic Compounds ◽

Economic Loss ◽

The United States ◽

Sticky Trap ◽

Drosophila Suzukii ◽

Trap Design ◽

Target Capture ◽

Volatile Organic ◽

The Usa

AbstractSpotted wing drosophila (SWD) causes significant economic loss in fruit crops to growers worldwide. There is immediate need for efficacious and selective monitoring tools that can detect infestations early. Previously, volatile organic compounds derived from apple were studied and a quinary chemical component blend (QB) was identified as the key SWD attractant in a blueberry orchard in the United States. This study’s aim was to determine whether previously observed QB efficacy, selectivity, and early detection levels could be attained within raspberry and cherry fields in the USA and Europe. Results demonstrated that sticky trap baited QB dispenser provided earlier SWD detection potential than the usually adopted apple cider vinegar (ACV) trap. The number of SWD captured/trap by QB baited trapping systems was significantly lower than that of the ACV trap. However, percent SWD/trap of QB baited traps was same within cherry. Lower non-target capture will save farmer/grower’s labor and time allocated to traps installation and drosophila species identification. Within the USA, SWD selectivity of QB baited liquid traps was consistently greater than sticky trap in raspberry field, suggesting that the QB dispenser can be an alternative to the standard ACV lure and that trap design could improve selectivity further.

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Sticky Trap Design Considerations for Entrapping Bed Bugs

Insects ◽

10.3390/insects10060177 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 177

Author(s):

Benjamin A. Hottel ◽

Roberto M. Pereira ◽

Salvador A. Gezan ◽

Philip G. Koehler

Keyword(s):

German Cockroach ◽

Sticky Trap ◽

Cimex Lectularius ◽

Plastic Film ◽

Bed Bugs ◽

Trap Design ◽

Bed Bug ◽

The Third ◽

Design Considerations ◽

Set Up

Little evidence has been presented on the usefulness of sticky traps for monitoring bed bugs, Cimex lectularius. We examined how the surface roughness around the adhesive of a sticky trap affects both bed bug behavior and adhesive entrapment. In the first assay, bed bugs were placed onto acetate paper discs with different roughness averages (Ra). Each disc was surrounded by sticky trap adhesive and number of captured bed bugs were recorded. The second assay was set up similarly to the first assay except that the outer portion of the acetate disc had a different Ra than the center. In the third assay, bed bugs were placed into circular acetate arenas where they were surrounded by different Ra treatments. The number of times the bed bugs contacted the Ra treatment but did not cross onto the treatment was recorded. Results of these assays showed that as the acetate surfaces got smoother (lower Ra), bed bugs were more likely to get trapped in sticky trap adhesives but also less likely to travel across the smoother surfaces they encountered. A sticky trap design with a smooth plastic film around the adhesive was tested in the field to see if it could capture bed bugs in apartments with known bed bug activity. This trap was not only able to capture bed bugs but was also able to detect unknown German cockroach, Blattela germanica, infestations. Sticky trap designs with smooth surfaces around an adhesive could be used to monitor not only bed bugs but also German cockroaches.

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Improved Aedes/dengue field surveillance using Gravid Oviposition Sticky trap and dengue NS1 tests: Epidemiological, entomological outcomes and community acceptance

Acta Tropica ◽

10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.105829 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 216 ◽

pp. 105829

Author(s):

Jonathan Wee Kent Liew ◽

Sivaneswari Selvarajoo ◽

Wei Kit Phang ◽

Mukhainizam Mah Hassan ◽

Mohd Sabri Redzuan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sticky Trap ◽

Community Acceptance

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A novel trap design for non-lethal monitoring of dung beetles using eDNA metabarcoding

Journal of Insect Conservation ◽

10.1007/s10841-021-00329-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Leandro Camila ◽

Dejean Tony ◽

Valentini Alice ◽

Jean Pauline ◽

Jay-Robert Pierre

Keyword(s):

Dung Beetles ◽

Trap Design

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Dispersal of the sugar-cane scale Aulacaspis tegalensis (Zhnt.) (Hem., Diaspididae) by air currents

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1017/s0007485300047404 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 61 (3) ◽

pp. 547-558 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

D. J. Greathead

Keyword(s):

Sugar Cane ◽

Laboratory Experiments ◽

Sticky Trap ◽

Research Station ◽

High Humidity ◽

Dispersal Mechanism ◽

Large Numbers ◽

Speed Up ◽

Trap Catches ◽

Aulacaspis Tegalensis

By means of sticky traps and a suction trap, it was demonstrated on a plot of sugar-cane at Kawanda Research Station, Uganda, that large numbers of crawlers of Aulacaspis tegalensis (Zhnt.) become airborne (up to 10/m3). The numbers increase with wind speed up to about 2·0 m/s and then remain constant, but are depressed by increasing humidity. In laboratory experiments, crawler survival was reduced by high temperatures (30°C) and low humidities (30% r.h.), but some individuals should survive the extreme conditions sometimes experienced if airborne from morning until evening. On hatching, crawlers move upwards and towards the light, but downwards in the dark; movement is inhibited by high humidity. These behaviour responses indicate hat the presence of crawlers in the air is not accidental but a dispersal mechanism. At Arusha Chini, an isolated sugar estate in Tanzania, sticky-trap catches downwind of a windbreak confirmed that airborne dispersal of crawlers is a major source of infestation. It is shown that air currents could have carried crawlers to Arusha Chini from a source on the Kenya coast, 260 km to the east.

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