Bio-degradable Decoy Reduces Insecticide Use.

From: Agricultural Research | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

In New England, apples on about 95 percent of unsprayed trees are typically damaged by apple maggots.

Just as appearances can be deceiving, so can taste buds be fooled. A case in point: apple maggot flies that fall for a biodegradable decoy baited with sugar and laced with insecticide.

The people responsible for the taste bud trickery are Agricultural Research Service scientists and university and industry cooperators who designed the fatal attractions to be unattractive to many nontarget creatures. The scientists say similar decoys can be tailor-made for other insect ...

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