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Title: Small-scale field tests of attract-and-kill stations for pest Tephritid fruit flies

Author
item Epsky, Nancy
item Gill, Micah
item Kendra, Paul
item CRANE, JONATHAN - University Of Florida
item Heath, Robert

Submitted to: Entomological Society of America Regional Meetings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/6/2009
Publication Date: 3/8/2010
Citation: Epsky, N.D., Gill, M.A., Kendra, P.E., Crane, J., Heath, R.R. 2010. Small-scale field tests of attract-and-kill stations for pest Tephritid fruit flies. Entomological Society of America Regional Meetings.

Interpretive Summary: n

Technical Abstract: Field tests were conducted at UF-TREC, Homestead to test efficacy of wax-matrix bait stations and mass trapping for control of the Caribbean fruit fly in a 5 by 30 tree guava planting. Results of the study and the ability to document control using small-scale field tests will be discussed.