What is it about?
Insect eradications are going up - but new incursions are often first discovered in a city, not out in agriculture where farmers are used to controlling pests, including with insecticides. Here we showed that pheromone technology might be part of the answer, using mating disruption in urban Perth, Australia.
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Why is it important?
If we fail to tackle the eradication of important pests, we risk the buildup of serious threats to food and fibre production. If we rely just on pesticides - we loose the social license to operate.
Perspectives
This work is a rare example of tackling agricultural pests in an urban environment. People in Perth didn't mind the pheromone being put out in this work.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Feasibility of Mating Disruption for Agricultural Pest Eradication in an Urban Environment: Light Brown Apple Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Perth, Journal of Economic Entomology, June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/jee/tov142.
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