Perspectives for Synergic Blends of Attractive Sources in South American Palm Weevil Mass Trapping: Waiting for the Red Palm Weevil Brazil Invasion

Perspectives for Synergic Blends of Attractive Sources in South American Palm Weevil Mass Trapping: Waiting for the Red Palm Weevil Brazil Invasion

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Coupling several natural and synthetic lures with aggregation pheromones from the palm weevils Rhynchophorus palmarum and R.ferrugineus reveals a synergy that results in an increase in pest captures.The combined attraction of pure pheromones, ethyl acetate, and decaying sweet and starchy plant tissue increases the net total of mass-trapped weevils.

The 2018 entrance mega motion lc100 of the red palm weevil (RPW) into South America has threatened palm-product income in Brazil and other neighboring countries.The presence of the new A1 quarantine pest necessitates the review of all available options for a sustainable mass-trapping, monitoring, and control strategy to ultimately target both weevils with the same doorking video intercom device.The effective lure-blend set for the mass-trapping system will attract weevils in baiting and contaminating stations for entomopathogenic fungi that the same weevils will spread.