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Postharvest treatment of strawberries with methyl bromide to control spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii
- Source :
- Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 15:451-456
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2012.
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Abstract
- Methyl bromide (MB) chamber fumigations were evaluated for postharvest control of spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii, in strawberry exports from California USA. Strawberries were infested with the most MB-tolerant age of SWD (60‐ to 108-h old at fumigation, ca. mature larvae), infested fruit were buried amongst uninfested fruit in export packaging, and fumigations were with 48 mg L− 1 (3.0 lbs/1000 ft3) for 3 h at 18.0 ± 0.5 °C ( x ¯ ± s ). Complete mortality of 105,173 ± 3,321 (n ± s) SWD specimens was achieved with applied doses ≥ 34.5 mg L− 1 and exposures, expressed as a concentration × time products (CTs), ≥ 80.3 mg L− 1 h.
Details
- ISSN :
- 12268615
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9f9854a2d190dbbf33818df11d38a09a