Tools for monitoring: Pheromones improve efficiency of pest traps

By SUE ROESLER, The Prairie Star
May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019 Updated May 10, 2019

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Dr. Gadi V.P. Reddy, entomologist/ecologist at Montana State University's Western Triangle Agricultural Research Center, speaks about pheromones as an pest management tool.

Dr. Anamika Sharma, WTARC entomologist/ecologist, is working with Gadi on pheromone monitoring techniques and using phermones with traps in field.

Sticky traps are being used to catch the wheat midge, for one, and pheromones increase the efficiency of the traps

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By SUE ROESLER, The Prairie Star

Farmers need an array of management tools to deal with yield-robbing insects - pea leaf weevil, wheat stem sawfly, wireworms/click beetles, and others - and pheromone traps can be one of those amazing tools.

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