Efficiency of different colored traps baited with pheromone in capturing tomato adult moth, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) during summer plantation

Efficiency of different colored traps baited with pheromone in capturing tomato adult moth, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) during summer plantation

2014

E08726

Effects of trap color, trap direction and trap position on the tomato moth, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) captures was evaluated. Each trap was baited with a pheromone capsule type Q lure-TUAReg.. White pheromone traps caught more moths than yellow, blue, green and red traps. Significant differences between mean catches by white trap and other colored traps were observed. The trap when located at south or center of the infested area caught more moths than when located at west, east or north although there are insignificant differences between mean catches at each direction. The collective catch of T. absoluta moths by the traps rested on the ground was more than that of the two other positions (50 and 100 cm above the ground) where comparison test of catches showed significant differences between 0 cm position (rested on the ground) and other two positions.

30(4):406-412, WORLD APPLIED SCIENCES JOURNAL

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