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SUPPRESSION OF CODLING MOTH (LEPIDOPTERA: OLETHREUTIDAE) BY SEX PHEROMONE TRAPPING OF MALES1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. R. MacLellan
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Kentville, Nova Scotia

Abstract

The intensive use of sex pheromone traps in an insecticide-free apple orchard from 1972 to 1974 reduced the codling moth population and level of fruit damage. The sex ratio of bait-trapped adults indicated that the male population was being reduced by the pheromone traps. In commercial orchards pheromone trapping of males suppressed codling moth damage to fruit but the amount of damage was above acceptable economic levels.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

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