What is it about?
A new lure for females of a hard-to-control currant borer will support the use of mating disruption in spray free control.
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Why is it important?
Female lures for clearwing moths will help the development of Integrated Pest Management and reduce the need for insecticides.
Perspectives
This pest group keeps coming back every few years according to the growers, so it is good to have new tools emerging.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Identification of a floral-derived kairomone for currant clearwing, Synanthedon tipuliformis, Chemoecology, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-016-0218-9.
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