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Trap Tree and Interception Trap Techniques for Management of Ambrosia Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Nursery Production

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dc.contributor.authorAddesso, Karla M.en
dc.contributor.authorOliver, Jason B.en
dc.contributor.authorYoussef, Nadeeren
dc.contributor.authorO'Neal, Paul A.en
dc.contributor.authorRanger, Christopher M.en
dc.contributor.authorReding, Michael E.en
dc.contributor.authorSchultz, Peter B.en
dc.contributor.authorWerle, Christopher T.en
dc.contributor.departmentVirginia Agricultural Experiment Stationen
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-03T17:54:07Zen
dc.date.available2020-03-03T17:54:07Zen
dc.date.issued2019-04en
dc.description.abstractThe majority of wood-boring ambrosia beetles are strongly attracted to ethanol, a behavior which could be exploited for management within ornamental nurseries. A series of experiments was conducted to determine if ethanol-based interception techniques could reduce ambrosia beetle pest pressure. In two experiments, trap trees injected with a high dose of ethanol were positioned either adjacent or 1015 m from trees injected with a low dose of ethanol (simulating a mildly stressed tree) to determine if the high-dose trap trees could draw beetle attacks away from immediately adjacent stressed nursery trees. The high-ethanol-dose trees sustained considerably higher attacks than the low-dose trees; however, distance between the low- and high-dose trees did not significantly alter attack rates on the low-dose trees. In a third experiment, 60-m length trap lines with varying densities of ethanol-baited traps were deployed along a forest edge to determine if immigrating beetles could be intercepted before reaching sentinel traps or artificially stressed sentinel trees located 10 m further in-field. Intercept trap densities of 2 or 4 traps per trap line were associated with fewer attacks on sentinel trees compared to no traps, but 7 or 13 traps had no impact. None of the tested intercept trap densities resulted in significantly fewer beetles reaching the sentinel traps. The evaluated ethanol-based interception techniques showed limited promise for reducing ambrosia beetle pressure on nursery trees. An interception effect might be enhanced by applying a repellent compound to nursery trees in a pushpull strategy.en
dc.description.adminPublic domain – authored by a U.S. government employeeen
dc.description.notesWe thank Josh Basham, Joseph Lampley, Debbie Eskandarnia, and Megan Patton (Tennessee State University [TSU]) for assistance with data collection and beetle identifications. This project was partially funded by the USDA Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative (FNRI Agreement Number 58-3607-3-984) and USDA-NIFA Evans Allen funding (0232937).en
dc.description.sponsorshipUSDA Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative (FNRI) [58-3607-3-984]; USDA-NIFA Evans Allen fund [0232937]en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toy413en
dc.identifier.eissn1938-291Xen
dc.identifier.issn0022-0493en
dc.identifier.issue2en
dc.identifier.pmid30649433en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/97122en
dc.identifier.volume112en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/en
dc.subjectmass trappingen
dc.subjectXylosandrus crassiusculusen
dc.subjectXylosandrus germanusen
dc.subjectCnestus mutilatusen
dc.subjecttrap cropen
dc.titleTrap Tree and Interception Trap Techniques for Management of Ambrosia Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Nursery Productionen
dc.title.serialJournal of Economic Entomologyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.dcmitypeStillImageen

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