Location: Commodity Protection and Quality Research
Project Number: 2034-43000-043-037-T
Project Type: Trust Fund Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Feb 1, 2021
End Date: Jul 31, 2024
Objective:
Develop trapping and monitoring systems the improve the ability to predict navel orangeworm damage, and that accomplish this irrespective of the presence or absence of mating disruption.
Approach:
1) ARS-PI will analyze data provided by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) coPIs from 2021 and 2022 mating disruption trials in which season-long capture data fom traps baited with meso-dispensers and Peterson traps are correlated with navel orangeworm damage in almond samples taken at harvest.
2) Conduct aging trials with meso-dispenser and Peterson traps in 2021, and conduct field trials in 2022 to improve meso-dispenser trap efficiciency.
3) Conduct laboratory and field studies in 2021 to quantify and, if possible, improve efficiency of female trapping with Peterson and other ovipositional lures.
