What is it about?

New trapping system for stonefruit using highly attractive peach lactones

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Why is it important?

This is a native NZ flower thrips pest of export stonefruit.

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New tools for Integrated Pest Management form an important part of our work. The discovery and exploitation of peach lactones attractive to this insect offers insights beyond the current project.

Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland

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This page is a summary of: Development of an efficient trapping system for New Zealand flower thrips, Thrips obscuratus, Pest Management Science, July 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ps.3823.
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