What is it about?

We are moving away from broadcast insecticides towards more benign methods of insect control using sex pheromones.

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Why is it important?

This apple pest is a major quarantine problem for export as the fruit must be pest and residue free. Our research may offer a solution.

Perspectives

We are tackling unconventional pests with unconventional methods.

Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland

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This page is a summary of: Prospects for the control of apple leaf midgeDasineura mali(Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) by mass trapping with pheromone lures, Pest Management Science, August 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ps.3857.
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