Abstract

MORENO RODRIGUEZ, Davis; ALVAREZ NUNEZ, Andrea; VAZQUEZ MORENO, Luis L  and  ALFONSO SIMONETTI, Janet. Evaluation of Attractives for Catching Female Adults of Coffee Berry Borer Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) with Handmade Traps. Fitosanidad [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.3, pp. 177-180. ISSN 1818-1686.

Coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) was informed in Cuba in 1995 and nowadays it is present in most of the producing areas along the country. In this way the search of alternatives for its management has not ceased from their introduction and at the present time there is a group of them of feasible use. Among these methods the use of rustic traps has an outstanding place because it is a simple and economic option. However the more effective alcoholic attractive for the adults capture had not been determined in Cuban conditions. In this sense a work was realized with the objective of evaluating the effectiveness of ethyl alcohol from sugar cane alone and mixed with methyl alcohol and roast grinded coffee, as attractive for the coffee berry borer. The experiment was carried out in pre harvesting phase of a coffee plantation in Pinar del Río province, in the west part of the country. Significant differences were proven among the three treatments. The best capture values were detected with the mixture of methyl alcohol+ethyl alcohol in the proportion 3:1, and lowest values were recorded when the alone ethylic alcohol was used. The feasibility of using ethyl alcohol of sugar cane as attractive of H. hampei was demonstrated and two tendencies in the behaviour of captures in time according to treatment were observed.

Keywords : Hypothenemus hampei; attractive; traps.

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