- Title
- The host status of lemons for the false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick)(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) with particular reference to export protocols
- Creator
- Moore, Sean D, Kirkman, Wayne, Hattingh, Vaughan
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/452252
- Identifier
- vital:75115
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC176581
- Description
- The South African citrus industry is dependent on export of fresh fruit to many markets around the world, with approximately 70% of South Africa's citrus crop being exported (CGA 2013). The false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), is recorded as a pest of citrus fruit in southern Africa (Newton 1998; Grout and Moore 2015). As a result of its endemism to sub-Saharan Africa (Moore 2002), certain export markets of importance for the South African citrus industry, such as Peoples Republic of China, U.S.A. and South Korea, regulate it as a quarantine pest.Control of the pest in the field can be highly effective, using a suite of integrated control options, applied with diligent management (Moore and Hattingh 2012). These can succeed in reducing T. leucotreta infestation by 97% or more (Moore et al. 2015). Such an integrated system, using the sterile insect technique as the mainstay of the programme, has succeeded in reducing moth catches by 99%, fruit infestation by 96% and export rejections by 89% in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, since the inception of the programme in 2007 (Barnes et al. 2015).
- Format
- 7 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Entomology, Moore, S., Kirkman, W. and Hattingh, V., 2015. The host status of lemons for the false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick)(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) with particular reference to export protocols. African Entomology, 23(2), pp.519-525, African Entomology volume 23 number 2 519 525 2015 2254-8854
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