Plastic cup traps equipped with light-emitting diodes for monitoring adult Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae).
Equipping the standard plastic cup trap, also known as the CC trap, with lime-green light-emitting diodes (LED-plastic cup trap) increased its efficacy for catching Bemisia 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 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.
Chu
Chang-Chi
CC
USDA-ABS Western Cotton Research Laboratory, 4135 E. Broadway, Phoenix, AZ 85040, USA. cchhu@wcrl.ars.usda.gov
Jackson
Charles G
CG
Alexander
Patrick J
PJ
Karut
Kamil
K
Henneberry
Thomas J
TJ
D000818:Animals; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000469:parasitology; D007300:Insect Control / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D010969:Plastics; D011157:Population Dynamics
D010969:Plastics