High-Level Project Summary
Traps are generally used to indicate pest presence in a cropping region or field not to provide an estimate of pest density on which management decisions can be made. Pheromone traps can be used in many ways for detecting insects early in the season, for season-long monitoring of pest abundance, or for attracting insects away from main crops (mass trapping with an insecticide bait). Several manufacturers produce synthetic versions of sex pheromones that can be used in durable traps to determine insect activity and seasonal abundance. After a lot of researches, we found that the trap baited with pentaene dispensed from a grey halobutyl rubber septum is the best development.
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Detailed Project Description
Pheromone traps can be used in many ways for detecting insects early in the season, for season-long monitoring of pest abundance, or for attracting insects away from main crops (mass trapping with an insecticide bait). Several manufacturers produce synthetic versions of sex pheromones that can be used in durable traps to determine insect activity and seasonal abundance. The mechanisms including camouflage, competition between pheromone dispensers and females, habituation, and some advancement of the rhythm of the male’s response to the female’s pheromone, which may result in asynchrony in sexual behaviors. The use of antagonistic compounds, agonists, pheromone mimics, and synergists are broadly grouped under the term Parapheromones, loosely defined as anthropogenic compounds structurally related to natural pheromone compounds that affect the behavior or physiology of the insect’s communication system. This group includes compounds of plant origin used to annihilate (with an attractant plus a lethal agent) the males of important dipteran pests, such as bait sprays for fruit flies or walnut husk flies. While parapheromones alter neural activity, change insect behaviors and depressor synergizes trap capture, their utility in the field for management purposes has received limited testing and remains highly variable. we found that the trap baited with an optimized lure blend of 200 µg 9Z,11E-14:Ac, and 2000 µg C25 pentaene dispensed from a grey halobutyl rubber septum is recommended for future detection and monitoring studies with the fir cone worm. This lure and trap combination has already been adopted as the standard operational monitoring tool. abietivorella in British Columbian seed orchards. It is currently being used to determine the flight phenology of populations in seed orchards and natural conifer stands throughout southern BC and the northwestern USA. Its usefulness as a tool for making pest-management decisions will be contingent upon developing a relationship between captured males and subsequent damage.
Space Agency Data
We used Species Distribution Modeling Data. Species Distribution Modeling Data (SDMs) estimate the relationship between observed, in-situ species occurrences and the environmental and/or spatial characteristics of those locations. SDMs use raster-based layers such as land use/land cover, this information is then combined with ground-collected presence data in statistical models to determine if a habitat is ideal for a particular species so it helped us with information to know the relationship between the environment and the insects and to predict species distributions by identifying key environmental (i.e., abiotic) characteristics of suitable species habitats and then use models that incorporate both information on known occurrences of a species.
Hackathon Journey
It was a quite useful and good experience to know more and be more familiar with team work, We will describe it as a fun-useful experience as it is enjoying to learn more about different fields. We learned more about insects in general from the research we made especially about their biodiversity and the effects they do on the environment, let's don't forget that the experience itself made us more aware of how researches are made.
We were more interested in this challenge as it was new for us and we felt like challenging something new is quite like a new adventure we believe if it's more challenging to us it is more useful as we will learn about something we're not familiar with.
We faced some problems when we were working on a solution like bad internet connection, the difficulty of meeting because of COVID-19, and many more problems, but we knew it is okay to face problems we didn't argue it was quite the opposite. We helped each other with the tasks. When there is something wrong we discuss the problem quietly until we find a suitable solution. If a team member is having trouble with the internet connection another member can do her task while she can do another task that doesn't require an internet connection.
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#Solution, #Pests, #trabs
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