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Ammonium Carbonate Is More Attractive Than Apple and Hawthorn Fruit Volatile Lures to Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Washington State

Yee, Wee L. ; Nash, Meralee J. ; Goughnour, Robert B. ; Cha, Dong H. ; Linn, Charles E. ; Feder, Jeffrey L.

In: Environmental Entomology, 2014, vol. 43, no. 4, p. 957-968

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    Title
    • Ammonium Carbonate Is More Attractive Than Apple and Hawthorn Fruit Volatile Lures to Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Washington State
    Author
    • Yee, Wee L.. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, 5230 Konnowac Pass Road, Wapato, WA 98951.
    • Nash, Meralee J.. Puyallup Research & Extension Center, Washington State University, 2606 W. Pioneer Ave, Puyallup, WA 98371.
    • Goughnour, Robert B.. Washington State University Extension, 1919 NE 78th Street, Vancouver, WA 98665.
    • Cha, Dong H.. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, 5230 Konnowac Pass Road, Wapato, WA 98951.
    • Linn, Charles E.. Department of Entomology, NYS Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456.
    • Feder, Jeffrey L.. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 4665.
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    Language
    • English
    Published in
    • Environmental Entomology, 2014, vol. 43, no. 4, p. 957-968. Oxford University Press
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    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:303883
    Summary
    The apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), is an introduced, quarantine pest of apple (Malus domestica Borkhausen) in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In the eastern United States where the fly is native, fruit volatiles have been reported to be more attractive than ammonia compounds to R. pomonella. However, the opposite may be true in the western United States. Here, we determined whether newly identified western apple and western hawthorn fruit volatiles are more attractive than ammonium carbonate (AC) to R. pomonella in apple, black hawthorn, and ornamental hawthorn trees in western Washington State. In all three host trees, sticky red sphere or yellow panel traps baited with AC generally caught more flies than traps baited with lures containing the four newly developed fruit blends (modified eastern apple, western apple, western ornamental hawthorn, and western black hawthorn) or two older blends (eastern apple and eastern downy hawthorn). Fruit volatiles also displayed more variation among trapping studies conducted at different sites, in different host trees, and across years than AC. The results imply that traps baited with AC represent the best approach to monitoring R. pomonella in Washington State