Evaluation and Comparison the efficiency of light, pheromone and light-pheromone traps for collecting Cydia pomonella

Subject Areas : Plant Pests

Hamidreza Sarraf Moayeri ¹ , majid azadi ²

1 - Plant Protection Department, , Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan,, Zanjan,, Iran
2 - Former MSc. Student Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

Received: 2020-06-18 Accepted : 2020-06-18 Published : 2018-08-23

Keywords: pheromone trap, Cydia pomonella, light trap,

Abstract :

In this study, the efficiency of light trap in different length waves (ultra-violet, blue, yellow and white), pheromone trap and their combination were examined for attracting Codling moth. The effect of different parameters included the color of light trap, the height of trap, trap capacity and the number of pores was studied on the male moth attraction rate. The result showed that ultraviolet trap attracted the most rate of male moth. At the height of 1.5 meter, none of the traps was useful. The number of pores had no significant effect on the attraction rate, however traps with more capacity (5.5 L.) showed significant difference with the smaller traps. The highest attraction rate of male moth showed similar results in both light and pheromone traps. It seems that designed traps in this study could be applied for forecasting and mass-attraction of apple moth after complimentary tests.