Evaluation of coloured sticky traps for monitoring beneficial insects in apple orchards

Wallis, D.R.; Shaw, P.W.

doi:10.30843/nzpp.2008.61.6811

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“…The use of green traps may also reduce the impact on non-target species, such as the beneficial ones (e.g. hymenopteran parasitoids, bees, and coccinellids) since these species are mainly attracted by yellow traps (Wallis and Shaw, 2008). Our captures seem to confirm this trend, but further studies are necessary to confirm it.…”

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Assessment of color response and activity rhythms of the invasive black planthopper Ricania speculum (Walker, 1851) using sticky traps

Mazza

Marraccini

Mori

et al. 2019

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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AbstractTo be effective, management strategies of invasive alien species cannot ignore their spatiotemporal behavior particularly those exerting serious damages to human activities. The black planthopper Ricania speculum is an Asian insect that has been reported as an alien invasive species in Italy, where it threatens local plant diversity, including important crops. In our work, we analyzed the activity rhythms of this species through circular statistics and the efficiency of chromotropic traps to capture adult individuals. Captures were carried out in central Italy, where the black planthopper is showing a remarkable range expansion, after its first discovery in 2009. We observed that the species was mainly crepuscular, with a high intersexual activity overlap. Activity rhythms changed between July–August and September–October, with changing heliophany, but peaked at sunset and were the lowest in the second half of the night and early morning. The insects were mostly caught by green traps, particularly in September, which is the period of egg-laying inside the leaves; conversely, orange ones were avoided, and yellow ones captured proportionally to their local availability. Strategies for controlling this species should consider concentrating trapping effort during the activity peak, using green sticky traps to enhance the capture success of each trap, with the lowest impact over non-target species.

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“…One trap per color was attached in the north–south direction above the ground at the height of the vegetative growth (approximately 180 cm above the ground on the frame), as per Hoddle et al . (2002) and Wallis and Shaw (2008) and the three traps were spaced 20 cm from each other (Supplementary fig. 1).…”

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Assessment of color response and activity rhythms of the invasive black planthopper Ricania speculum (Walker, 1851) using sticky traps

Mazza

Marraccini

Mori

et al. 2019

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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“…We used sticky traps to sample the availability of flying insects, which is a commonly used method (e.g. Diehl et al 2013, Herberstein & Elgar 1994, Juillet 1963, Wallis & Shaw 2008. We collected the potential prey by using two sticky traps (20 × 15 cm), one white and one yellow coloured, hanged next to each other at a height of~1.6 m above the ground.…”

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“…However, we then investigated the prey preferences only for four prey groups, namely Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera. This was because the sticky traps are only suitable for catching flying insects and because these four prey types are all attracted to the trap colours used (Heinz et al 1992, Juillet 1963, Wallis & Shaw 2008. Although the different colours may show different community composition at the species level, when the taxonomic resolution is at the family and order level, the compositional differences are blurred (Vrdoljak & Samways 2012).…”

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The dynamics of prey selection by the trap-building predatorGasteracantha hasselti

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Prey selection by generalist predators can be highly dynamic depending on the prey community structure. However, the dynamics of prey selection at the stage of prey entrapping are rarely investigated in trap-building predators, probably because their traps have been previously considered to intercept mobile prey proportionally to its availability in environment. Here we investigated the dynamics of prey selection by the orb-weaving spider Gasteracantha hasselti (Araneidae) depending on the composition of the available prey in tropical lowland forests located in north-eastern Thailand. We found that Gasteracantha captured a wide variety of prey but selected, on average, mostly Coleoptera and Diptera. The selectivity of Gasteracantha’s webs for Coleoptera was constant across the changes in overall prey availability and prey composition. The web selectivity for Hemiptera decreased rapidly with increasing relative densities of Hemiptera in the environment. The selectivity for Diptera and Hymenoptera increased and decreased, respectively, with their absolute densities in the environment. The relative selectivity of Gasteracantha’s traps for a particular prey type was driven by the presence and density of the highly selected prey rather than overall prey density. The results show that the selectivity of Gasteracantha’s traps for prey had both fixed and dynamic components and the dynamic component was determined by the relative as well as absolute densities of the particular prey types in the environment.

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“…Sticky traps have commonly been used to sample harmful and beneficial insects in wild and cultivated plants worldwide. Colored sticky traps are a simple and low-cost method for determining the abundance of pest insects and their natural enemies in orchards (Wallis & Shaw, 2008). Yellow sticky traps, as a sampling tool, were used to monitor the abundance of pest insects, such as thrips and leafhoppers, visiting citrus trees in Adana Province, Turkey (Başpınar & Uygun, 1994).…”

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Response of some beneficial insect species to colored sticky traps in citrus

Atakan

Pehlivan

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2016

Turkish Journal of Entomology

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Colored sticky traps have been commonly used for the sampling of detrimental insect species worldwide. However, there is no information about the catches of non-target insects such as predaceous and pollinating insects by colored traps. In this study, trials with colored sticky traps (white, yellow, blue and green) in mandarin cv Okitsu (Satsuma) trees were carried out during 2011 and 2012 in Adana Province, Turkey. Colored plates were hung, at about 1.7 m above ground level, from the exterior canopy of the selected trees and were positioned to the four cardinal directions. A total of 15 beneficial insect species were captured on various colored plates. Yellow and green traps were more attractive to the coccinellid, Oenopia conglobata (L., 1758), than the other colored traps. Significantly more of the predaceous hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus (De Geer, 1776) and the honey bee, Apis mellifera L., 1758 were obtained on white traps. Green and blue traps were the least attractive to A. mellifera. The yellow, blue and green traps hung on the west side of the trees captured significantly more beneficial insects, but white traps hung on the south sides of outer branches trapped considerable numbers of E. balteatus and O. conglobata. White and yellow sticky traps may provide more ecological data for beneficial insects.

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Evaluation of coloured sticky traps for monitoring beneficial insects in apple orchards

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Assessment of color response and activity rhythms of the invasive black planthopper Ricania speculum (Walker, 1851) using sticky traps

Assessment of color response and activity rhythms of the invasive black planthopper Ricania speculum (Walker, 1851) using sticky traps

The dynamics of prey selection by the trap-building predatorGasteracantha hasselti

Response of some beneficial insect species to colored sticky traps in citrus

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