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Efficacy of aggregation nano gel pheromone traps on the catchability
of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) in Egypt
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Abstract: Field experiments were carried out in the reclaimed land east of Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road, Village of Wardan,
Giza Governorate, Egypt, to evaluate the impact of using nano-gels pheromone for the first time on the attraction
of the RPW adults by pheromone traps compared to the control which is normal pheromone during two successive
seasons in 2018 and 2019. Also, this study aimed to compare the efficacy of two types of trap, traditional trap (type 1)
and dry funnel trap (type 2) in capturing of RPW adults. Results revealed that the nano gel pheromone traps attracted
significantly more adults with an average of (4.26 and 3.56) adults/trap and total of (55.33 and 46.33) adults/trap
compared to control with an average (2.69 and 2.46) and total of (35.00 and 32.00) adults/trap for the two seasons
2018 and 2019 respectively. Results indicated that the use of nano gel pheromone for the first time in field improved
the trap catchability to RPW adults by 22.51 and 18.30% of total number of RPW adults captured throw out the two
successive seasons respectively. In addition, there was no significant difference between the total numbers of RPW
adults collected by the two tested type of traps over the two successive seasons. Furthermore, the sex ratio between
males and females of total collected RPW adults found to be1: 1.43 and 1: 1.94 at 2018 and 2019 respectively.
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2021
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Journal
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