Do pheromone traps help to reduce new attacks of Ips typographus at the local scale after a sanitary cut?

ABSTRACT: The spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus, is causing severe economic losses during epidemic phases triggered by droughts and/or windstorms. Sanitation felling and salvage logging are usually the most recommended strategies to limit the damages. However, any additional control method to limit the economic impact of an outbreak would be welcome. In this respect, the efficiency of pheromone trapping is still controversial or poorly documented. In this 2-year study (2020-2021), at the peak of a severe outbreak in Belgium, we quantified the wood volume and presence/absence of new attacks at 126 sites attacked during the previous year and within 100 m from the initial attack. Each site was randomly allocated to one of three treatments: (1) three crosstraps baited with pheromones, (2) one t

SUBMITTER: Kuhn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9526401 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature