Feasibility of Mating Disruption for Agricultural Pest Eradication in an Urban Environment: Light Brown Apple Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Perth

What is it about?

Insect eradications are going up - but new incursions are often first discovered in a city, not out in agriculture where farmers are used to controlling pests, including with insecticides. Here we showed that pheromone technology might be part of the answer, using mating disruption in urban Perth, Australia.

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Why is it important?

If we fail to tackle the eradication of important pests, we risk the buildup of serious threats to food and fibre production. If we rely just on pesticides - we loose the social license to operate.

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