June 2021 - 10

Missed connections
Mating disruption products availability, practice grow
Western corn rootworm. Photo:USDA ARS, Bugwood.org
By Stephen Kloosterman
Associate Editor
More types of agricultural
pheromones available in the market
for an increasing number of pests give
growers options for pest control.
Mating disruption products
confuse and distract insect pests
from procreation using artificial
pheromones linked to pests'
aggregation and mating behavior. The
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niche for the products is growing.
Market analytics firm Fortune
Business Insights expects the global
agricultural pheromones market to
become a $7.80 billion industry by
2027, while growing nearly 16% per
year between 2020 and 2027.
" The growth is attributable to the
increasing adoption of integrated pest
management practices and the growing
focus on implementing technology for
efficient crop monitoring services that
will boost the adoption of innovative
agricultural pheromones worldwide, "
the firm wrote in a January news
release. It added that the market had
grown at a lower rate in 2020 due to
COVID-19 disruptions in the supply
chain.
Extension offices at universities
Equipment that makes dollars & 'sense'
around the country are on board.
Penn State Extension as early as
2017 wrote that " large-scale mating
disruption implementation trials
have yielded significant reductions
in pesticide use while keeping crop
damage levels acceptably low. "
Through the present day, mating
disruption continues to be an
important part of integrated pest
management for apple growers
controlling such pests as Oriental
fruit moth and codling moth.
As VGN sister publication Fruit
Growers News reported earlier this
year, Michigan State University's Larry
Gut is trialing mating disruption
products for San Jose scale, a pest
traditionally controlled with dormant
oils that are increasing in cost and
broad-spectrum pesticides, such as
chlorpyriphos, that face increasing
restriction.
The products are used in crops
other than fruit. Oklahoma-based
Trécé LLC, which is working with
Gut on the San Jose scale trials and
is well-known for its codling moth
traps for monitoring, continue to
research and release new products for
use in almonds, pistachios, walnuts
and even a product targeting corn
rootworm. The company markets
itself as having registered more than
100 species-specific, pheromonebased
kits, attractants and lures under
its CideTrak, StorGard and PheroCon
brands. A new offering released in
October 2020, CideTrak IMM MEC,
disrupts the mating habits of pests
that do most of their damage in
grains or dried fruits: Indianmeal
moth, Plodia interpunctella; tobacco
moth, Ephestia elutella; almond moth,
Cadra cautella; raisin moth, Cadra
figulilella; and Mediterranean flour
A CideTrack meso dispenser. Photo: Trécé
moth, Ephestia kuehniella.
" We have probably around 15
new mating disruption products
in research and development trials
right now, so I think as there are
fewer and fewer tools available to
growers and pest managers in terms
of insecticides, there's a greater need
for other ways to manage their pests, "
said Danielle Kirkpatrick, Trécé's
global technical support coordinator.
" Mating disruption as a whole is a
growing area, and so I'd say within the
next 2-3 years, we'll have anywhere
from 5-10 new mating disruption
products developed. "
Most of the products Trécé has are
registered for use in organic-certified
farm operations, she said, and they're
certified through the Washington
State Department of Agriculture.
In addition to there being more
products, companies are also making
the products easier to apply.
" Sprayable pheromones are a
new area that is being developed, "
Kirkpatrick said. " We call them
microencapsulated, or MEC for short.
That's one of the areas we've been
focusing on, to have an alternative
option for the growers versus going
out and hanging up hand-applied
dispensers. " VGN
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