ESA Eastern Branch Meeting Online Program

Nanofabricated Agrilus decoys used for monitoring forest buprestids.

Sunday, March 17, 2013: 2:00 PM
Grand Ballroom 3 (Eden Resort and Suites)
Michael Domingue , Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Zoltán Imrei , Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
György Csóka , Department of Forest Protection, Forest Research Institute, Mátrafüred, Hungary
Thomas C. Baker , Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
We have been working to develop trapping technologies for Agrilus species found in European Oak forests, with a primary focus on Agrilus biguttatus (Coleopter: Buprestidae), a known forest pest. We previously showed that pinned dead specimens of several species of Agrilus are capable of visually attracting males of these species for mating attempts including  Agrilus planipennis. After a field season in 2011, in which green plastic branch traps with A. planipennis visual decoys were sucessfully deployed to trap A. biguttatus and other oak-infesting buprestids, we deployed similar traps in 2012 with artificial nano-fabricated Agrilus decoys. The traps with nanofabricated decoys were as sucessful as those with real pinned dead A. planipennis visual decoys in capturing A. biguttatus and other buprestid species.
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