MONITORING INFORMATION
Monitor codling moth infestations with traps and by visual inspection of fruit. Early placement of BioLure® CM monitoring traps is recommended along with careful field scouting. Monitoring adult populations with BioLure CM pheromone traps is strongly recommended to provide baseline information on population density and to improve timing of mating disruption and/or insecticide treatments. Place one BioLure CM wing trap per 10 acres with a minimum of two traps per block. Place traps at a height just below the dispensers. Place additional traps on borders that are most subject to migration from adjacent fields or host crops. Clean trap bottoms at least weekly. Replace BioLure CM lures at least every two months and trap bottoms more often if they become dirty or covered with dust, spray material, moth scales or other insect body parts. Do not handle other types of insect traps or lures before or after placement of BioLure CM traps without thoroughly washing hands. BioLure CM traps are very useful for monitoring CheckMate applications but should not be the only method of monitoring the codling moth infestation developing in an orchard. Pheromone mating disruption treatments will shut down trap catches of male moths. Pheromone lures, such as BioLure CM, can not detect migration of codling moth females from adjacent fields or developing infestations of secondary pests. |