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Title: PLASTIC CUP TRAPS EQUIPPED WITH LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES FOR MONITORING ADULT BEMISIA TABACI (HOMOPTERA:ALEYRODIDAE)

Author
item CHU, CHANG CHI
item JACKSON, CHARLES
item ALEXANDER, PATRICK
item KARUT, KAMIL - ADANA, TURKEY
item HENNEBERRY, THOMAS

Submitted to: Journal of Economic Entomology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/9/2002
Publication Date: 12/13/2002
Citation: CHU, C., JACKSON, C.G., ALEXANDER, P.J., KARUT, K., HENNEBERRY, T.J. PLASTIC CUP TRAPS EQUIPPED WITH LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES FOR MONITORING ADULT BEMISIA TABACI (HOMOPTERA:ALEYRODIDAE). JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 2002. 96(3): 543-546

Interpretive Summary: Equipping the standard plastic cup trap, also known as the 'CC trap', with a lime green light-emitting diodes (LED-plastic cup trap) increased its efficacy of catching B. tabaci by 100%. Few Eretmocerus eremicus Rose and Zolnerowich and Encarsia formosa Gahan were caught in LED-plastic cup traps. The LED-plastic cup traps are a less expensive than yellow sticky card traps for monitoring adult whiteflies in greenhouse crop production systems and are more compatible with whitefly parasitoids releases for Bemisia nymph control.

Technical Abstract: Equipping the standard plastic cup trap, also known as the 'CC trap', with a lime green light-emitting diodes (LED-plastic cup trap) increased its efficacy of catching B. tabaci by 100%. Few Eretmocerus eremicus Rose and Zolnerowich and Encarsia formosa Gahan were caught in LED-plastic cup traps. The LED-plastic cup traps are a less expensive than yellow sticky card traps for monitoring adult whiteflies in greenhouse crop production systems and are more compatible with whitefly parasitoids releases for Bemisia nymph control.