MONITORING INFORMATION

Monitoring adult populations of oriental fruit moth with BioLure® pheromone traps is strongly recommended to provide baseline information on population density and to improve timing of mating disruption and/or insecticide treatments. Good monitoring is an important part of achieving optimum results. Visual inspection of foliage and fruit for larval feeding is also needed at frequent intervals after treating to implement supplemental control strategies if needed. Place one BioLure OFM wing trap per 10 acres with a minimum of two traps per block. Position traps in the upper portion of the canopy. When the first oriental fruit moth is caught in a trap, CheckMate® OFM dispensers should be applied. Place additional traps on borders that are most subject to migration from adjacent fields or host crops. Clean trap bottoms at least twice weekly. Replace BioLure OFM 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 lures before or after placement of BioLure OFM traps without thoroughly washing hands. BioLure OFM traps should not be utilized as the only method of monitoring the degree of crop protection being afforded by CheckMate OFM. Effective pheromone mating disruption treatments will shut down trap catches of male moths. Pheromone lures, such as BioLure OFM will not detect migration of oriental fruit moth females from adjacent fields or infestations of peach twig borer. The use of bait traps (terpinyl acetate) and frequent field inspection of fruit is strongly recommended.