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- Title
Visual responses of Musca domestica to pheromone impregnated targets in poultry units.
- Authors
Chapman, J. W.; Knapp, J. J.; Goulson, D.
- Abstract
SummaryField trials investigating the effect of visual cues on catches of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) at toxic targets impregnated with the female sex pheromone (Z)-9-tricosene, were conducted in a caged-layer deep-pit poultry unit in southern England. Targets treated with azamethiphos and baited with 2.5 g of 40% (Z)-9-tricosene impregnated beads caught significantly greater numbers of M. domestica than control targets. The greater attractiveness of the pheromone impregnated targets persisted for at least 5 weeks. The addition of longitudinal black stripes, or a regularly spaced pattern of black spots, to the white targets had no effect on catch rates. However, a pattern of clustered black spots, designed to imitate groups of feeding M. domestica, significantly increased target catches; this effect was particularly pronounced in the targets impregnated with (Z)-9-tricosene. Trials comparing the attractiveness of white and fluorescent yellow pheromone-treated targets under two different lighting regimes indicated that M. domestica does not have a significant preference for either colour. The implications of these results in relation to the control of M. domestica populations in poultry units are discussed.
- Subjects
HOUSEFLY control; PHEROMONES; POULTRY; (Z)-9-tricosene
- Publication
Medical & Veterinary Entomology, 1999, Vol 13, Issue 2, p132
- ISSN
0269-283X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2915.1999.00147.x