Comparison of synthetic pheromone traps capture for pomegranate fruit moth, Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Lep.: Pyralidae)
2011
Farazmand, Hossein | Moshiri, Afshin
Pomegranate fruit moth (PFM), Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Lep.: Pyralidae), is the most important of pomegranate in Iran and other pomegranate producing countries. Every year the larvae of E. ceratoniae causes damage pomegranate fruits. Sex pheromone has been used for the monitoring and population dynamic of PFM. Currently, various commercial synthethc pheromones produced and sold. Two field tests, in a randomized complete block design with 5 treatments and 4 replications were carried out in 2010-2011 to evaluate the efficiencies of different synthetic sex pheromones of PFM in pomegranate orchards in Tehran region. During the tests period, regularly, were visited the traps and were recorded trap captures. The results showed that, the highest and lowest of pheromone trap captures were recorded in Alpha® pheromone (0.58 male moth per trap in day) and Santhamous® pheromone (0.28 male moth per trap in day), respectively. So, Quince moth sex pheromone trap were captured 0.23 male quince moth per trap in day. The results showed that, the use of synthetic pheromone of PFM for monitoring and studing of pest population dynamic in Tehran regions, the efficiency Alpha® sex pheromone was higher. Regarding to the problem for efficiency of PFM sex pheromone, its suggested to use the natural sex pheromone of PFM (with live females of this moth) for monitoring purposes.
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