What is it about?
Spotted Wing Drosophila threatens New Zealand and Australia so we collaborated to train a MSc student at Oregon State University Joe Klieber, to screen various lures for attraction.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Spotted Wing Drosophila threatens a return to orgnaophosphate insecticides in some jurisdictions. It is a serious pest of a range of fruits.
Perspectives
The challenge of having a highly attractive species specific lure for SWD remains to be dealt with, although this project was a good introduction for the New Zealand team to the pest. Without a more species specific lure, by-catch would prevent border surveillance in Australasia.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Attractiveness of Fermentation and Related Products to Spotted Wing Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae), Environmental Entomology, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1603/en13224.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
