Perspectives for Synergic Blends of Attractive Sources in South American Palm Weevil Mass Trapping: Waiting for the Red Palm Weevil Brazil Invasion
Viviane Araujo Dalbon,
Juan Pablo Molina Acevedo,
Karlos Antônio Lisboa Ribeiro Junior,
Thyago Fernando Lisboa Ribeiro,
Joao Manoel da Silva,
Henrique Goulart Fonseca,
Antônio Euzébio Goulart Santana,
Francesco Porcelli
Affiliations
Viviane Araujo Dalbon
Natural Resources Research Laboratory, Center for Engineering and Agrarian Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Renorbio (LPqRN, CECA, Renorbio-UFAL), Av. Lourival Melo Mota, S/N, Tabuleiro do Martins, Maceió 57072-900, AL, Brazil
Juan Pablo Molina Acevedo
Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research Agrosavia C. I. Turipana—AGROSAVIA, Km. 13, Vía Montería-Cereté 230558, Córdoba, Colombia
Karlos Antônio Lisboa Ribeiro Junior
Natural Resources Research Laboratory, Center for Engineering and Agrarian Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Renorbio (LPqRN, CECA, Renorbio-UFAL), Av. Lourival Melo Mota, S/N, Tabuleiro do Martins, Maceió 57072-900, AL, Brazil
Thyago Fernando Lisboa Ribeiro
Natural Resources Research Laboratory, Center for Engineering and Agrarian Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Renorbio (LPqRN, CECA, Renorbio-UFAL), Av. Lourival Melo Mota, S/N, Tabuleiro do Martins, Maceió 57072-900, AL, Brazil
Joao Manoel da Silva
Microbiology Research Laboratory, Center for Engineering and Agrarian Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Renorbio (LM, CECA, Renorbio-UFAL), Av. Lourival Melo Mota, S/N, Tabuleiro do Martins, Maceió 57072-900, AL, Brazil
Henrique Goulart Fonseca
Natural Resources Research Laboratory, Center for Engineering and Agrarian Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Renorbio (LPqRN, CECA, Renorbio-UFAL), Av. Lourival Melo Mota, S/N, Tabuleiro do Martins, Maceió 57072-900, AL, Brazil
Antônio Euzébio Goulart Santana
Natural Resources Research Laboratory, Center for Engineering and Agrarian Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Renorbio (LPqRN, CECA, Renorbio-UFAL), Av. Lourival Melo Mota, S/N, Tabuleiro do Martins, Maceió 57072-900, AL, Brazil
Francesco Porcelli
Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Amendola, 165/a, 70126 Bari, Italy
Coupling several natural and synthetic lures with aggregation pheromones from the palm weevils Rhynchophorus palmarum and R. ferrugineus reveals a synergy that results in an increase in pest captures. The combined attraction of pure pheromones, ethyl acetate, and decaying sweet and starchy plant tissue increases the net total of mass-trapped weevils. The 2018 entrance of the red palm weevil (RPW) into South America has threatened palm-product income in Brazil and other neighboring countries. The presence of the new A1 quarantine pest necessitates the review of all available options for a sustainable mass-trapping, monitoring, and control strategy to ultimately target both weevils with the same device. The effective lure-blend set for the mass-trapping system will attract weevils in baiting and contaminating stations for entomopathogenic fungi that the same weevils will spread.
