[EN] Modern agricultural policies across the globe are committed to a significant reduction in chemical pesticide dependency; however, pest management strategies are still based on the use of synthetic pesticides. There ...
Beltrán Salvador, Robert(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-03-09)
[ES] Delottococcus aberiae (De Lotto) más conocido como Cotonet de les Valls, pseudococcido proveniente del África Subsahariana está causando grandes pérdidas en el sector citrícola de la Comunidad Valenciana desde el año ...
This book contains a summary of oral communications and posters presented in the 8th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance all together with 35 extensive papers, the final Scientific program, poster ...
BACKGROUND
The withdrawal of malathion in the European Union in 2009 resulted in a large increase in lambda-cyhalothrin applications for the control of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, in Spanish citrus ...
Vacas González, Sandra; López -Faubel, Jesus; Primo Millo, Jaime; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-10)
The response of Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) to different emission rates of its pheromone, (3E, 8Z, 11Z)-tetradecatrienyl acetate, was measured in two greenhouse trials with traps baited with mesoporous ...
Attractants and pheromones are commonly used in integrated pest management programs in crop systems. However, pheromone dispensers employed in monitoring traps and lure and kill devices are not usually well studied and ...
[EN] Mating disruption (MD) is a species-specific and environmentally friendly pest management tactic based on the release of synthetic sex pheromones aiming to interrupt the mate-finding communication and prevent mating ...
Vacas, Sandra; Navarro Fuertes, Ismael; Marzo, J.; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente; Primo Millo, Jaime(American Chemical Society, 2019-08-28)
[EN] Native to sub-Saharan Africa, Delottococcus aberiae De Lotto (Hemiptera: Pseudoccidae) is an invasive mealybug that has been recently reported in Europe, seriously damaging citrus production in eastern Spain. In this ...
Alfaro Cañamás, Cristina; Vacas González, Sandra; Zarzo Castelló, Manuel; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente; Primo Millo, Jaime(American Chemical Society, 2010-12-13)
[EN] Considerable efforts have been devoted to understanding the courtship behavior and pheromone communication of medflies; however, the sex pheromone composition is still a controversial subject. The discovery of new ...
Vacas González, Sandra; Miñarro, M; Bosch, MD; Primo Millo, Jaime; Navarro Llopis, Vicente(Entomological society of America, 2013)
[EN] The response of the codling moth (Cydia pomonella L. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)) to different emission values of its main pheromone component, 8E,10E-dodecadien-1-ol (codlemone), was investigated in three field trials ...
BACKGROUND: The tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta Povolny) has rapidly colonised the whole Mediterranean and South-Atlantic coasts of Spain, and it has become a key problem in both outdoor and greenhouse crops. New control ...
Vacas González, Sandra; Alfaro Cañamás, Cristina; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente; Zarzo Castelló, Manuel; Primo, J.; Primo Millo, Jaime(Oxford University Press, 2009-06)
Traditional chemical control against Chilo suppressalis Walker is currently being replaced in Spain by new methods based on pheromones. A key step to improve the efficacy of these methods is the determination of the optimum ...
Vacas, Sandra; Primo Millo, Jaime; Manclus Ciscar, Juan José; Montoya, Ángel; Navarro-Llopis, Vicente(MDPI, 2019-09)
[EN] Spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (Diptera: Drosophilidae), has become a key pest for soft fruits and cherries in Europe in less than a decade since the first outbreak in 2007. Although this pest's ...
[EN] Semiochemical-based pest management programs have been increasingly used to provide environmentally friendly methods for the control of major insect pests. The efficacy of the mating disruption technique has been ...
Vacas González, Sandra(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011-11-02)
Los semioquímicos son sustancias implicadas en la comunicación entre seres vivos. En el caso de los insectos, pueden ser herramientas de gran utilidad en la lucha contra plagas, como alternativas a la aplicación de ...