THE EFFICACY AND COMPARISON OF TRAPS TO MONITOR ADULT WHITEFLY POPULATION DENSITIES IN CANTALOUPE

A whitefly trap recently developed by Chu and Henneberry was tested in a cantaloupe field at the University of Arizona Maricopa Agricultural Center in 1995. The trap was compared with a 3 × 5-inch yellow sticky card trap, a commercial dome trap, and the leaf-turn sampling method. Results showed that...

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Published inHortScience Vol. 31; no. 6; p. 918
Main Authors Umeda, Kai, Fredman, C, Fredman, R, Chu, C.C, Henneberry, T.J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.10.1996
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Summary:A whitefly trap recently developed by Chu and Henneberry was tested in a cantaloupe field at the University of Arizona Maricopa Agricultural Center in 1995. The trap was compared with a 3 × 5-inch yellow sticky card trap, a commercial dome trap, and the leaf-turn sampling method. Results showed that the new whitefly trap effectively caught adults in cantaloupes. Numbers of adults increased as whitefly adult population densities increased during the season. Numbers of adults caught by the new whitefly trap were comparable to numbers of adults caught with the commercial dome trap and to a lesser extent the counts of adults determined by leaf-turn sampling method. Results with the new trap were not comparable to adults caught with yellow sticky card traps.
ISSN:0018-5345
2327-9834
DOI:10.21273/HORTSCI.31.6.918B