What is it about?
Wasps are an ecosystem disaster in New Zealand. We have been working on new attractants and here we combined odours from animal, plant and microbial kingdoms - and the wasp numbers went up.
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Why is it important?
Controlling invasive Vespula wasps in the 1.2 M ha of Nothofagus beech forests is our long term goal, because the impact of 5 kg of wasps per ha has supplanted native biodiversity.
Perspectives
Social wasps are serious adversaries. No biocontrols or other credible socially acceptable controls in sight - and they aren't going away.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Combining odours isolated from phylogenetically diverse sources yields a better lure for yellow jackets, Pest Management Science, June 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ps.4050.
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