Colour Response in Western Flower Thrips Varies Intraspecifically.

ABSTRACT: Discrepancies in the published research as to the attraction of the economically important pest western flower thrips (WFT) to different colours confounds the optimisation of field traps for pest management purposes. We considered whether the different experimental conditions of independent studies could have contributed to this. Therefore, the behavioural response (i.e., landings) to different colour cues of two WFT laboratory populations from Germany (DE) and The Netherlands (NL), which had previously been independently shown to have different colour preferences, were tested in the same place, and under the same experimental conditions. Single-choice wind tunnel bioassays supported previous independent findings, with more of a NL population landing on the yellow LED lamp (588 nm) than th

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Reyes K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9224597 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature