Development of a Poisoned Bait Strategy against the Silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Escherich, 1905)
| Autor: | Morten Hage, Bjørn Arne Rukke, Anders Aak, Heidi Elisabeth Heggen Lindstedt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
Integrated pest management demography Population 01 natural sciences Toxicology 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Ctenolepisma longicaudata Lepisma education lcsh:Science safe strategy 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences education.field_of_study poisoned bait population collapse biology Indoxacarb Clothianidin Ctenolepisma biology.organism_classification 010602 entomology chemistry efficiency Insect Science Instar Silverfish lcsh:Q control |
| Zdroj: | Insects, Vol 11, Iss 852, p 852 (2020) Insects Volume 11 Issue 12 |
| ISSN: | 2075-4450 |
| Popis: | Pest management strives to be an efficient, yet healthy and environmentally safe control method, and the use of poisoned bait often fulfils these criteria. In the present study, we show that bait with indoxacarb as the active ingredient is highly efficient for controlling Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Escherich, 1905) and two of its relatives, Lepisma saccharina (Linnaeus, 1758) and Ctenolepisma calva (Ritter, 1910). Applying small bait droplets (size ~10 mg) along the walls of several types of buildings, at no more than 0.5 to 1.0 g bait per 100 m2, was a cost-efficient and safe strategy for the knockdown and eradication of C. longicaudata. During field experiments, the demography changed from an initial mixture of different stages to total dominance of early instars preceding the population collapse. Poisonous bait outcompeted mass-trapping with sticky-traps and conventional insect spray treatment for the efficient control of C. longicaudata in apartments. Different droplet densities (1 vs. 0.5/m2) and active ingredients (indoxacarb vs. clothianidin) did not have different effects in field experiments. These results show that poisoned bait is a highly relevant tool for managing C. longicaudata and potentially against other silverfish infestations. |
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