Detecting Stored-Product Moths in a Peanut Warehouse by Using Light Traps and Larval Traps

Robert L. Kirkpatrick, Dan Niffenegger and Don L. Yancey

No 313680, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpt from the report: This report describes tests conducted to provide additional data needed on initial insect infestation of farmers' stock peanuts during storage. The tests were conducted, therefore, to determine: • If light is effective in attracting stored-product insects to insect traps. • If stored-product insects are attracted to ultraviolet light or to green light. • If the numbers of adult insects or larvae attracted to the traps are related to temperature, humidity, or vapor-pressure deficit, or all three, occurring inside the warehouses. • If larval traps are effective for monitoring the amount of larval infestation in stored peanuts. • If light or larval traps are effective in controlling insect infestation in stored farmers' stock peanuts.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 1972-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313680

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