Using Long-term Capture Data to Predict Trogoderma variabile Ballion and Plodia interpunctella (Hubner) Population Patterns.

ABSTRACT: Insects can infest facilities that house and process post-harvest grains and grain-based products. Integrated pest management tactics rely on tracking insect populations and using this information to select and target management tactics. Our ability to predict when and where to best focus treatment relies on an understanding of long-term trends, but often any available monitoring data are limited in its duration. Here we present data collected over a 10-year period at a flour mill in the central part of the United States. Using traps placed both inside and outside a flour mill and baited with pheromone-lures for Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), Indianmeal moth, and Trogoderma variabile Ballion, warehouse beetle, we examine environmental and spatial variability in insect captures. We find th

SUBMITTER: Gerken AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6523208 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature