Lacanobia subjuncta is a pest of apple in the Pacific Northwest, consuming foliage and damaging apple fruit. The combination of acetic acid and 3-methyl-1-butanol is attractive to both males and females and is used to develop lures for both monitoring traps and control strategies. Bait stations were made with badminton shuttlecocks painted with a permethrin formulation and lures that released this feeding attractant. These stations are effective in attracting moths and killing them following contact with the shuttlecock. Bait stations deployed at 50 per acre reduced numbers of L. subjuncta moths in both blacklight traps and feeding attractant traps used to monitor activity in the experimental plots. Bait stations were found to be effective for up to 24 days of exposure in the field.
Species 1: Lepidoptera Noctuidae Lacanobia subjuncta
Keywords: bait, attractant
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