CERA TRAP®: a bioprotection solution for the control of fruit flies

Mass trapping emerged in Spain in the 1990s as an alternative and effective system to use. Mass trapping emerged in Spain in the 1990s as an alternative and effective system to the extensive use of insecticide applications, which until then were considered as the only suitable strategy for Control of fruit flies. Insecticide spray programs, whether aerial or localized, ended up causing imbalances in agricultural systems, damaging useful fauna and risks to both the applicator and the final co...

Ceratitis capitata control on table grapes in Spain by the mass-trapping system Cera Trap®

The Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) ,Ceratitis capitata,is a world wide agricultural pest with an extremely high invasive potential, which makes this species difficult to control. Mass trapping techniques a recurrently one of the most common control methods applied against Medfly as an alternative to standard insecticide sprays. CeraTrap® is a pesticide-free attractant formulation of natural origin, based on a liquid protein mixture obtained by an exclusive enzymatic hydrolysis.CeraTrap®(...

Electroantennogram of Ceratitis capitata and field responses on Bactrocera dorsalis with Cera Trap

Background: Due to the economic impact of fruit flies, much attention has been focused onthe development of trapping systems for detection and monitoring pests and more recently toprovide successful pest control without the use of insecticides. This is due to the lately publicdemand for more benign control techniques. In this respect, the mass trapping techniqueattempts to provide successful pest control reducing the pest population in the plot by meansof traps baited with a lure with or wit...

Utilización de Fevillea cordifolia L., como planta trampa para el control de Anastrepha grandis (Macquart, 1846) en Panamá.

Identification of Ceratitis capitata electrophysiological and field responses to Cera Trap®

Fruit flies such as Ceratitis capitata and Bactrocera invadens are notorious worldwide for their destructive impact on agriculture and particularly difficult to control effectively. Pesticide treatment have historically been used against theses pests, but nowadays it is necessary to develop alternative strategies due to an increase in insecticide resistance, but also to toxicological and environmental consequences. Mass trapping techniques are currently one of the most common control methods...