Insect traps

Most emphasis is placed on a program of rigorous preventive maintenance. Appropriate climate conditions can help to prevent mold attack, which typically only occurs at elevated relative humidity. Storage furniture which provides an effective barrier for insects, regular inspection of the collections, monitoring of all collection areas with insect traps, and access control measures which minimize the chance of insect entry into the collection areas, are some aspects of an effective pest control management program (175). 

Hodges, R.J., Halid, H., Rees, D.P., Meik, J., and Sarjono, J. 1985. Insect traps tested as an aid to pest management in milled rice stores. J. Stored Prod. Res. 21, 215-229. 

Dowd, P. F. (2005). Suitability of commercially available insect traps and pheromones for monitoring dusky sap beetles (Coleoptera Nitidulidae) and related insects in Bt sweet com. J. Econ. Entomol., 98, 856-861. 

The apple fruit moth, Argyresthia conjugella, is an invasive pest that bores into immature apples and eats them from within. One of its sex pheromones is (Z)-11-hexadecenyl acetate, which is used commercially to attract and trap the adult insects. Insect attractants are important chemicals for use in "organic" farming, because sticky insect traps baited with pheromones are allowed for insect control underthe "organic" farming rules. 

Organic growers also use biological control. They are allowed to import natural enemies of pests. This works either through predation or parasitism. This has proven effective for the control of red spider mite and specific caterpillars, and does not affect other insects. And a third technique is to use insect traps ranging from sticky yellow strips to pheromone or sexual lures. The pheromone traps use synthetic extracts of the chemical scents that... 

One unusual application is a UV emitter containing Eu + SrB407 insects can see the UV and be attracted to it, so it has been used in insect traps. 

Note that earlier studies describing the sequencing of much more ancient DNA such as that found in insects trapped in amher appear to have been flawed contaminating modem DNA was responsible for the sequences determined. 

Complete directions on how, when, and where to use preventive methods, insect traps and barriers, biocontrols, homemade remedies, botanical insecticides, and more... 

See if any of your neighbors use electric insect traps and Bag-A-Bug traps. Neither is effective. 

INSECT TRAPS FOR INFESTATION DETECTION IN BULK STORAGES AND FOOD HANDLING/PROCESSING ESTABLISHMENTS... 

Compared to the thus far discussed emphasis on drug discovery applications, olfactory receptors play an important role in the perfume and cosmetic industry the screening and design of new odorants is an economically interesting application. The discovery that the malaria transmitting mosquitos Anopheles, which is responsible for the death of more than one million people each year, possesses odorant receptors for particular components of human sweat means that different ligands could be screened for their activation or inhibition of these receptors, potentially leading to new, more effective insect traps and repellents [126]. 

Insect pheromones are organic compounds that are used by insects to communicate with each other. There are sex, trail, alarm and defence pheromones that are given off by insects to inform other insects of opportunities and problems. Pheromones have been exploited by baiting insect traps with an appropriate sex pheromone, which lures a specific insect to its doom. Many of these pheromones are alkcnes, often with Z cis) double bonds. A selection is shown below... 

The actions of I. a. are used in crop protection as decoy substances they attract insects either for subsequent eradication (insect traps) or for population control before or after treatment with insecticides or for collection for scientific purposes. In pest control with... 

When isolated in a friendly environment, viruses may exist for a considerable period of time. Prehistoric insects, trapped in amber, have yielded specimens of DNA some 25 million years old and claims to have isolated DNA from 80-million-years-old dinosaur bones have been made [133,134]. 

Since the classic work of Slama and Williams (27), who first demonstrated the presence of juvabione (4) in Abies balsamea, their work has been expanded to show that this keto-sesquiterpene methyl ester and its relatives are present in the heartwoods of other Abies species and in Pseudotsuga taxifolia. They may be recovered by a simple solvent extraction of groundwood pulp. They are used in forest-insect traps. 

The uses are regulated by EPA. However, pheromones and substantially similar compounds are excluded from regulation if they are to be used in insect traps solely for detection or survey purposes even if a toxicant is included in the trap. If the pheromone plus toxicant is used in a device solely to control the pest, then registration is required.(14) This leads to a curious regulatory situation exemplified by the contrasting requirements for... 

An alternative method of controlling insects without the use of insecticides has recently become popular. Several manufacturers have begun marketing insect traps and baits which are placed in comers, in cupboards, under sinks, and near floor drains to trap roaches and water bugs. Some of these traps employ an attractant chemical that lures the insect into the compartment where it is trapped by a strong adhesive. Others rely on insect entry by providing a dark, enclosed area as a potential shelter. When the trap is full, it is simply thrown out. The insect baits employ systemic or mechanical poisons. 

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