What is it about?
The flavour of ripe peaches attracts the insects, which are a pest of peaches and other stonefruit.
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Why is it important?
This can enable Integrated Pest Management.
Perspectives
We can trap the thrips readily with this lure and we have also tried various avenues to use it for control - but this has not worked by their sheer prevalence.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: 6-Pentyl-2H-pyran-2-one: A Potent Peach-Derived Kairomone for New Zealand Flower Thrips, Thrips obscuratus, Journal of Chemical Ecology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-014-0379-3.
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