“I am a licensed PCA in California with 20 years experience using mass trapping systems, pheromones and insect lures, working primarily with organic growers. In March of 2007, I began to use the citrus
leafminer pheromone lure (Product name: IT203
Iscalure-Citrella) and the Insect-A-Peel Trap for mass trapping rather than monitoring. This is the first year I have used the citrus leafminer pheromone lure and Insect-A-Peel trap for mass trapping for about a five acre key lime and tangerine orchard. The lure has proven to be very successful in reducing the citrus leafminer population by as much as 60%, and by September of 2007, 95%
control was
accomplished.” S.R. Pittman
jerriep@mindspring.com
California Pest Control Advisor
Fallbrook, California
"Phero Asia distributes pheromone products in South
East Asia. I was looking for a partner to develop efficient,
cost-effective lures for this demanding region. I found
a highly synergistic match with ISCA Technologies, Inc.
Clear benchmarks and goals were established for our collaboration
to develop a new pheromone based product using SPLAT
technology and each step was achieved, resulting in a
totally new product which now competes well with long
established technology in the promising new biofuel sector.
Their expertise in formulating the new lure, SPLAT
RB for the management of rhinoceros beetle (Product
name: SPLAT
RB (CG)), reduced
development costs for my company substantially while
meeting the
cost requirements in a very competitive region." David A. Loring
General Manager, Phero Asia LLC
Escondido, California
SPLAT-MAT is considered " the
most successful oriental fruit fly control tested
by ARS entomologist Roger Vargas." " SPLAT-MAT
captured nearly 14 times as many oriental fruit flies as
the carrier Min-U-Gel with Naled, which is the current
product used against this species of fruit fly.” Download
the article here (PDF
document). USDA ARS,
June 2007 article
“ Wax + pheromones = outstanding oriental fruit
moth control… Michigan State University researchers have seen ‘outstanding’
results’ when it comes to shutting down mating of oriental fruit moths
using a technique that combines pheromones with a wax emulsion ( SPLAT
: Specialized Pheromone & Lure Application Technology), says Jim
Miller, professor of entomology.” Download the article here (PDF
document). Grower Magazine, May 2005 issue
“I have experimented with a variety of traps
and lures to manage the olive fruit fly. The best solution that I have found
is ISCA’s ball trap (Product name: AR934A
Ball trap) and torula yeast
pellets (Product name: AT800
Torula Yeast pellets).
Though I have used the mcphail trap with success, I have found the ball
trap to be an improvement, with better trap catch results. ISCA’s entomologists
and customer service personnel have also been
very helpful in advising me about managing the olive fruit fly
and insect pest management in general.”
Christy Bohnet
Olive Grower and Pest Control Advisor
Los Gatos, California
“I have field tested the ball trap (Product name: AR934A
Ball trap) with two commonly used traps for houseflies. Though I used
similar lures, the housefly catch with the ball trap was significantly more than the other two
traps.”
Hang Do
Contract Biologist
Riverside, California
“Thank you for coming up with the Moritor System. I like your system because with the hand
held PC, I was able to get the GPS reading from each trap and record data of insect
infestation. It was very handy and easy to use, also in conjunction with the GIS maps, it
was easy to determine the areas of infestation. Overall, I was very satisfied with the
results of the pecan nutcase bearer pheromone disruption program and the use of the Moritor
System to track infestation patterns. I am looking forward to working with you all next
year.”
Howard Ivy
Owner of Evergreen Farms
Carrizo Springs, Texas
“I believe that the Moritor System should be an integral part of any IPM program, especially
one where a large number of traps and different locales are involved. It greatly increases
the productivity of the data collection and management process; and with the GIS maps, it
provided actionable visual and geographic feedback of the effectiveness of our PNC pheromone
mass disruption program in ways that a spreadsheet or graph cannot do. The Moritor System,
being an internet accessible system, was also advantageous in that all the researchers and I
could view and download the data to a MS Excel or CSV file.”
Tracey Carillo
Senior Research Specialist
New Mexico State University
“I found your website using a search engine and your rep was very helpful in answering my
queries.”
Lowell Hutchison
St. Joseph, Missouri
“We have found that the olive fruit fly pheromone (Product name: IT079P40
Olive fruit fly pheromone lure) and yellow sticky traps (Product name: AR914
Yellow Sticky trap) supplied by ISCA
has been very effective for control of olive fruit flies with our trees. We have
considerably less infestation than surrounding orchards.”
Whitehall Farms
St Helena, California
“Large numbers of fruit flies were caught right from the time of installation of the traps in the
field. The collection remained high for the entire 6 week period of the trial. The lures (which
were supplied by ISCA) proved extremely efficient in mass capturing mango fruit flies bactrocera
dorsalis.”
Dr Partho Dhang
Consultant Entomologist
Pest Science Corporation
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