This presentation will focus on the potential for using a trap crop approach to management of key pests of apples when (a) apples rank high vs. low on the scale of host fruit preference of key pests and (b) natural vs. synthetic trap crop stimuli (synthetic equivalents of apple odor and visual stimuli) are deployed as management tools. Plum curculio and apple maggot will be discussed as examples of key pests.
Species 1: Coleoptera Curculionidae Conotrachelus nenuphar (Plum curculio)
Species 2: Diptera Tephritidae Rhagoletis pomonella (Apple maggot)
Keywords: Trap crop, apple
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