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Make War on Western Flower Thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) With Our Trap and Lure
The new Alpha Scents lure for Western Flower Thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) is available to help you fight thrips damage and the spread of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, a tospovirus vectored by WFT. Combine this lure with our No-mess Blue/Yellow Sticky Card for highly effective monitoring and trapping of both male and female.
Tospovirus caused diseases have been reported in more than 550 plant species in 75 families of economically important field and greenhouse crops in the tropics, subtopics, and temperate climate zones worldwide*.
Seven thrips species have been reported as possible vectors. The majority become viruliferous in the second larval stage. However, adults are most efficient at transmitting TSWV and may retain infectivity for life. TSWV is transported via the salivary ducts**.
Lettuce leaves punctured by WFT may take on a silvery appearance that eventually turns to brown and can become confused with windburn or blown sand damage. Other foliage damage may include streaking, spotting and tissue distortion. Veins often look outlined by feeding closely parallel to them. Egg laying may leave translucent pimples and stippling that can be confused with mite stippling. Look for the presence of small, black fecal specks in the damaged area to confirm thrips damage. If you see webbing or shed skins damage may be caused by mites, not thrips***.
Place Alpha Scents No-mess Blue/Yellow Sticky Cards with lures along field edges when temperatures exceed 63°F to monitor for when thrips begin to migrate into the field from adjacent vegetation. Hang traps with lures above crop rows in field and greenhouses. Early morning, you can also place a trap (without lure) below plants and beat the plants to collect a representative sample on the sticky card for counting and positive identification. For this you may prefer to use our larger No-mess Yellow Sticky Card or a White Delta Trap Insert Sticky Card.
LITERATURE CITED
- *Wijkamp and D. Peters, 14 May 1993, Determination of the Median Latent Period of Two Tospoviruses in Frankliniella occidentalis, Using a Novel Leaf Disk Assay
- **Ineke wijkamp, Jan van Lent, Richard Kormelink, Rob Goldbach and Dick Peters, 30 Oct 1992, Multiplication of tomato spotted wilt virus in its insect vector, Frankliniella occidentalis
- ***UC IPM Online, 10/09, Lettuce, Western Flower Thrips
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Movie Short: MalEx™ Moth and Droplet Fatal Attraction
 Click [HERE] to watch a very short video that shows a Citrus leafminer male moth mating with a MalEx™ droplet. The full length movie will be showing in our Booth 100 at the Entomology 2010 Show. It is quite amazing. You won't want to miss seeing how this combination of pheromone and tiny amount of insecticide can be so effective without damaging the environment. The movie short is also playing at www.alphascents.com on the home page and in the Jukebox in our Video Library. |
 Be first to know about new products, field test results, and critical application updates. | New Traps and Lures Added for 2011
Traps added to our catalog include: - Palm Weevil Pail Trap to monitor for Rhynchophorus Weevils
- WindowBugCatcher™, a clear window trap in two sizes
Lures added to our catalog include: - Asian Corn Borer, Ostrinia furnacalis
- Barred Fruit Tree Tortrix, Pandemis cerasana
- Cabbage Root Fly, Delia radicum
- Carob Moth, Ectomyelois ceratoniae
- Eulia, Argyrotaenia pulchellana
- European Cherry Fruit Fly, Rhagoletis cerasis
- Jack Pine Budworm, Choristoneura pinus
- Onion Fly, Hylemya antiqua
- Pickleworm, Diaphania nitidalis
- Seed-Corn Fly, Hylemya platura
- Western Flower Thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis
- Iris Borer, Macronoctua onusta
- Jasmin Moth, Palpita unionalis
- Lacanobia Subjuncta, Lacanobia subjuncta
- Larch Shoot, Spilonota laricana
- Olive Moth, Prays oleae
- Pine Beauty, Panolis flammea
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 Catalogs and Documents Online (PDF): |
Online Document and Video Library
All documents and videos are available in the Library section of our web site. Simply click on the [About Us | Document Video Library] button on any page. This growing library contains all Alpha Scents, Inc. catalogs, flyers, MSDS documents, research papers and access to the video library. Go there now. |
Pest Wizard Brand / Alpha Scents Strategic Partnership
 Alpha Scents, Inc. and Glassnoise, Inc (a Nevada multimedia company) have entered into a strategic business arrangement with the launch of Pest Wizard, Inc. The Pest Wizard company packages and distributes IPM products and edutainment to consumers exclusively through highly qualified resellers who are enthusiastic and knowledgable about integrated pest management stratgies. The Pest Wizard mission is to encourage home folks to reconnect with their local ecosystem, adopt environmentally sound alternatives to damaging pest management methods, while discovering how fun it can be.
On both the web site and mobi site, interactive and entertaining videos built around The Backyard Wannabee Farmer (of No-mess Sticky fame) and a new animated comic created by Joe Martin, who's comics have been appearing in major newspapers for 35 years. The new animated comic, called Greenstone will begin in 2011, viewable on Pest Wizard dealer's web sites and the Pest Wizard mobi site. |
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Newsletter Archives Online
 All of the Alpha Scents e-Newsletters since January, 2009, are available online for you to revisit. Simply click on the "Visit ARCHIVE" button that appears on any alphascents.com web page to access the Archives List Page where each newsletter title is listed along with a brief abstract. Simply click on the title and read. |
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