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Title: Manufacture and Use of a Trap To Assess Heliothis Virescens and Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Adult Emergence

Author
item Blanco, Carlos
item Houston, Russell - Owen

Submitted to: Florida Entomologist
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/19/2005
Publication Date: 12/1/2005
Citation: Blanco, C.A., Houston, R.O. 2005. Manufacture and Use of a Trap To Assess Heliothis Virescens and Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Adult Emergence. Florida Entomologist. 88:544-546.

Interpretive Summary: To know the number of moths emerging from crop fields is of fundamental importance for the planning of transgenic crop refuges, which is part of the work done in this research unit. Attempts to measure the quantity of moths that are produced per area in different crops by other researchers are very limited in the published literature, because it is a time-consuming and difficult task and so far these reports are restricted in their details. This scientific note (not a regular full peer-reviewed article) describes the construction of a light-weight, relatively inexpensive and easy to transport and install trap that can be adopted on studies in different crops. The insects captured in this trap are of eacy collection and can be used in a variety of studies, such as basic biology, ecology of populations, biodiversity of the environment, etc., and to this moment this trap records with the greatest accuracy moth production per area, overcoming objections and liomitations to previous methodology.

Technical Abstract: To know the number of moths emerging from crop fields is of fundamental importance for the planning of transgenic crop refuges, which is part of the work done in this research unit. Attempts to measure the quantity of moths that are produced per area in different crops by other researchers are very limited in the published literature, because it is a time-consuming and difficult task and so far these reports are restricted in their details. This scientific note (not a regular full peer-reviewed article) describes the construction of a light-weight, relatively inexpensive and easy to transport and install trap that can be adopted on studies in different crops. The insects captured in this trap are of easy collection and they can be used on a variety of studies, such as basic biology, ecology of populations, biodiversity of the environment, etc., and to this moment this trap records with the greatest accuracy moth production per area, overcoming objections and limitations to previous methodology.