Chemical Attractants for Trapping Yellowjackets
Vespula germanica
and
Vespula pensylvanica
(Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Landolt, Peter J.

doi:10.1093/ee/27.5.1229

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“…Workers of V. germanica have been found previously attracted to similar baits (but not including AAIB in the mixture) (Spurr, 1995;. Unlike other reports (Day and Jeanne, 2001;Landolt, 1998;Landolt et al, 1999), in our study males were also captured (about 2% out of the total V. germanica captures) in baits that included AAIB.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…Field work was done Monday through Friday, starting at 9 AM every day, in February and March, a period of the year with maximum V. germanica activity in the region. Traps were rotated clockwise after each visit to minimize the effect of location within each block (Landolt, 1998). The number of visits (insects approaching a trap opening) was recorded during a 3-min period per trap with the observer at less than 1 m from the trap to identify the insect.…”

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“…Vespids use them as cues for pollination (Brodmann et al, 2008), to find the nest (Jandt et al, 2005) or food sources (Day and Jeanne, 2001). Several volatiles are attractive and can orient V. germanica foragers to the source, including fruit odors and other chemicals (Landolt, 1998;Day and Jeanne, 2001). Preliminary trapping studies conducted in Chile by Correa (2005) reported low captures of V. germanica with sources of protein and some sugary foods alone, and found that the mixture of isobutanol + acetic acid was more attractive to foragers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These compounds have also proven attractive for Vespula spp. when mixed at certain rates (Landolt, 1998).…”

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SELECTIVE ATTRACTION OF Vespula germánica (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) TO FEEDING BAITS ENHANCED WITH ISOBUTANOL AND ACETIC ACID

Curkovic

Vergara

Araya

et al. 2017

Chil. j. agric. anim. sci.

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Vespula germanica (F.) has a negative impact on agriculture, beekeeping, and tourism in Chile. Therefore, environmentally-friendly strategies need to be implemented to control this serious pest. The objective of this study was to evaluate the response of adults of V. germanica to different types of baits with acetic acid + isobutanol (AAIB) added. The selected baits were: blood and bone flour (BF), raspberry jam (RJ), and sweet condensed milk (CM). The trial was conducted in a severely infested site in central Chile. Mixtures were placed in bottle traps. All of the traps were monitored daily from Monday to Friday during 5 weeks, and rebaited every week. A randomized complete block design, with 12 treatments and 4 replicates was used. Captures of V. germanica and other social hymenopterans were identified and data were recorded; V. germanica individuals approaching the trap openings (= visits) were also counted. A number of 15,480 V. germanica individuals, which were mostly workers, were captured. The most attractive baits were CM and BF + 2 mL AAIB. Feeding baits attracted significantly more workers with increasing concentrations of chemicals (AAIB), and significantly more wasps than the feeding baits alone. Lesser captures occurred of Apis mellifera workers (1,046), while the preference trend differed from that observed for V. germanica in several treatments. A number of 854 Polistes buyssoni workers were captured, but no differences were found between treatments. In addition, a number of 466 V. germanica visited the traps, but the trend observed with captures only occurred in traps baited with BF + AAIB, whereas no preference trend was observed for mixtures with RJ and CM. The results indicate that these attracting baits can be used not only to massively and selectively capture and destroy adults of V. germanica, but also to develop feeding baits not attractive for A. mellifera.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These compounds have also proven attractive for Vespula spp. when mixed at certain rates (Landolt, 1998).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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SELECTIVE ATTRACTION OF Vespula germánica (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) TO FEEDING BAITS ENHANCED WITH ISOBUTANOL AND ACETIC ACID

Curkovic

Vergara

Araya

et al. 2017

Chil. j. agric. anim. sci.

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“…For example, traps baited with sweet beer to target Vespa velutina killed numerous other insects, notably Vespula vulgaris, Vespa crabro and various Diptera and Lepidoptera (Dauphin and Thomas 2009;Rome et al 2011). A number of synthetic compounds have been shown to be attractive to social wasps, including heptyl butyrate (Davis et al 1969;El-Sayed et al 2009;Landolt 1998b), 2,4-hexadienyl butyrate (Davis et al 1967), and a mixture of acetic acid with saturated short chain alcohols (Landolt 1998a;Landolt et al 2000). Although attracting and trapping adults can capture a large number of adults, there seems to be enough redundancy of adults within each colony that this results in surprisingly minimal effect on the colony.…”

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confidence: 99%