Effects of sticky trap colour, UV illumination and within-trap variation on tomato potato psyllid captures in glasshouses

Hodge, Simon; Bennett, Jacquelyn R.; Merfield, Charles N.; Hofmann, Rainer

doi:10.1080/01140671.2018.1508043

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“…Indeed, positive phototaxis and negative geotaxis also guided the male towards the top of the plant, where the actual female was placed, as hypothesised for D. citri [31]. In fact, B. cockerelli tends to move towards light stimuli, and UV-illumination was recently applied to enhance the attractiveness of sticky traps [32]. Notwithstanding, even in the presence of a replying female and natural light, our female playback prevented males from reaching the top of the plant and led them in the opposite direction.…”

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Can Vibrational Playbacks Disrupt Mating or Influence Other Relevant Behaviours in Bactericera cockerelli (Triozidae: Hemiptera)?

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Sullivan

Ciolli

et al. 2020

Insects

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Behaviours of insects can be manipulated by transmitting vibrational signals to host plants in order to develop pest management techniques. Bactericera cockerelli is an important pest and uses vibrations for mate-finding. In order to design a future control strategy for B. cockerelli, three different bioassays were performed to assess whether vibrational signals could affect relevant behaviours. Single males or pairs were treated with a female playback in test 1 and 2, respectively. In test 3, mixed sex groups received either different disturbance playbacks. The use of a female playback significantly reduced the mating success of males, since they were attracted towards the source of the stimulus. Moreover, test 2 revealed that B. cockerelli females are competitive, since they used their signals to cover the playback and to duet with males, while in test 3, the disturbance playback, consisting of broadband noises significantly reduced male signalling activity. However, none of the treatments of test 3 negatively affected the mating success of males, which tended to mount the other conspecifics present on the same leaf. The role of vibrations in sexual communication and their potential application as control technique for B. cockerelli are discussed as well.

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Can Vibrational Playbacks Disrupt Mating or Influence Other Relevant Behaviours in Bactericera cockerelli (Triozidae: Hemiptera)?

Avosani

Sullivan

Ciolli

et al. 2020

Insects

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“…While lures affected non‐target insect capture in unpredictable ways, colour had a more consistent effect on Psylloidea. Yellow sticky traps are commonly used in surveillance as they have been found more effective at capturing Psylloidea than other colours tested such as white and black (Hodge et al, 2019). Specialist behavioural and anatomical studies have, however, indicated that some Psylloidea have very good ‘colour vision’ (Farnier et al, 2015) and different species have different visual sensitivities (Czokajlo et al, 2015; Farnier et al, 2014).…”

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“…It is not the insect feeding per se that causes the most damage, but their ability to act as vectors for some devastating plant bacteriums, particularly Candidatus Liberibacter spp (e.g., Antolinez et al, 2017; Catling, 1970; Munyaneza et al, 2011). Sticky traps have been used as the most effective, cost‐efficient method for capturing most of these pests and are thus also promoted for biosecurity purposes (e.g., tomato potato psyllid: Hodge et al, 2019; Yen et al, 2013); Asian citrus psyllid: (Hall et al, 2010); carrot psyllids: (Burckhardt & Freuler, 2000); apple psyllids: (Miñarro et al, 2016). Traps are particularly effective if an attractant is added, for example, if placed near a host plant of target species, which are also known as sentinel plants (Mansfield et al, 2019).…”

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Value‐adding in biosecurity surveillance and monitoring: Testing colour and non‐target semiochemical lures on Psylloidea and Pentatomoidea

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Croeser

Telfer

et al. 2022

J Applied Entomology

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Cost efficiency in biosecurity surveillance is vital, and the ability to survey multiple pest species using just one trap is, therefore, highly appealing. The Psylloidea, or plantlice, contain significant horticultural pest species that act as vectors for a number of deleterious plant bacteria. We examine the efficacy of using two different coloured sticky traps, and two semiochemical lures on the general Psylloidea and Pentatomoidea fauna, and a target extant pest psyllid; tomato potato psyllid (TPP) Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc) in Western Australia. Specifically, we test the effect of semiochemical lure (no lure, Asian citrus psyllid ACP lure, brown marmorated stink bug BMSB lure, combined lures), sticky trap colour (yellow‐green vs yellow) and sentinel plant (tomato vs citrus) on psyllid and pentatomid species in 104 urban backyards across Perth, Australia. We found that tomato sentinel host plants and yellow‐green traps significantly increased the capture rate of TPP, but that lures decreased the capture of TPP constraining their use. Yellow‐green traps also increased the capture rate of all other Psylloidea. Although BMSB lures reduced TPP capture, these lures increased the abundances of other Psylloidea and the pest stinkbug Plautia affinis (Dallas) on traps. Thus, our experiment demonstrates that increased efficiencies can be gained with multi‐species traps and semiochemical lures for particular groups, provided that they have been tested on focal organisms in the first instance, as reactions to non‐target lures are unpredictable and species specific.

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“…It is not the insect feeding per se that causes the most damage, but their ability to act as vectors for some devastating plant bacteriums, particularly Candidatus Liberibacter spp (e.g., (Catling, 1970); (Munyaneza et al, 2011); (Antolinez et al, 2017)). Sticky traps have been used as the most effective, cost-e cient method for capturing most of these pests and are thus also promoted for biosecurity purposes (e.g., tomato potato psyllid: (Yen et al, 2013), (Hodge et al, 2019); Asian citrus psyllid: (Hall et al, 2010); carrot psyllids: (Burckhardt & Freuler, 2000); apple psyllids: (Miñarro et al, 2016). Traps are particularly effective if an attractant is added, for example, if placed near a host plant of target species, which are also known as sentinel plants (Mans eld et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hodge et al, 2019). Specialist behavioural and anatomical studies have, however, indicated that Psylloidea have very good 'colour vision'(Farnier et al, 2015) and different species may prefer different colour spectrums(Farnier et al, 2014);Czokajlo et al 2015).…”

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Optimizing efficiencies in biosecurity surveillance and monitoring: testing colour and multi-lure traps on tomato potato psyllid, other plant-lice (Psylloidea) and stinkbugs (Pentatomoidea)

Moir

Croeser

Telfer

et al. 2021

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Cost efficiency in biosecurity surveillance is vital, and the ability to survey for multiple pest species using just one trap therefore highly appealing. The Psylloidea, or plantlice, contain significant horticultural pest species that act as vectors for a number of deleterious plant bacteriums. We examine the efficacy of using two different coloured sticky traps, and two lure types on the general Psylloidea and Pentatomoidea fauna, and a target extant pest psyllid; tomato potato psyllid (TPP) Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc). Specifically, we test the effect of lure (no lure, Asian citrus psyllid ACP lure, brown marmorated stink bug BMSB lure, combined lures), sticky trap color (green vs yellow), and sentinel plant (tomato vs citrus) on psyllid and stink bug species in 104 urban backyards across Perth, Australia. We found that tomato sentinel host plants and green traps significantly increased the capture rate of TPP, but that all lures decreased the capture of TPP. Green traps also increased the capture rate of all other Psylloidea. Although BMSB lures reduced TPP capture, these lures increased abundances of other Psylloidea and the pest stinkbug Plautia affinis (Dallas) on traps. Thus, our experiment demonstrates that increased efficiencies can be gained with combination traps and lures for particular groups, provided that they have been tested on focal organisms in the first instance, as reactions to non-target lures are unpredictable and species specific.

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Effects of sticky trap colour, UV illumination and within-trap variation on tomato potato psyllid captures in glasshouses

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Can Vibrational Playbacks Disrupt Mating or Influence Other Relevant Behaviours in Bactericera cockerelli (Triozidae: Hemiptera)?

Can Vibrational Playbacks Disrupt Mating or Influence Other Relevant Behaviours in Bactericera cockerelli (Triozidae: Hemiptera)?

Value‐adding in biosecurity surveillance and monitoring: Testing colour and non‐target semiochemical lures on Psylloidea and Pentatomoidea

Optimizing efficiencies in biosecurity surveillance and monitoring: testing colour and multi-lure traps on tomato potato psyllid, other plant-lice (Psylloidea) and stinkbugs (Pentatomoidea)

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