Claim · model-written summary
Modified LED traps show promise for simultaneous monitoring of Encarsia formosa and whiteflies, warranting validation under commercial conditions.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Outcome
- simultaneous monitoring of E. formosa and whitefliese2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“with and without host-infested tomato leaves”
e2“Modified LED traps show promise for simultaneous monitoring of E. formosa and whiteflies, warranting validation under commercial conditions”
Title
Spectral Preferences of Encarsia formosa: Unravelling Attraction to LED Monitoring Traps
Emeka Emmanuel Ekejiuba; Rainer Meyhöfer Insects 2026. doi:10.3390/insects17030246
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Encarsia formosa showed the highest attraction to green LEDs, significantly more than to other colours.
- Intervention effect In greenhouse assays, Encarsia formosa preferred the standard yellow sticky trap over the LED-enhanced yellow trap.
- Observation In no-choice tests, only 9 % of Encarsia formosa were recaptured on the LED-enhanced yellow trap, with and without hosts.
- Intervention effect Modified traps with white or green backgrounds increased Encarsia formosa recapture by about 54 % over the yellow-background LED trap.
- Association Encarsia formosa attraction to the white-background LED trap declined with increasing light intensity, from 61 % at 18.0 to 4 % at 25.6 μmol m−2 s−1.
- Association Whitefly captures were stable to slightly higher with increasing light intensity.
- Recommendation The standard LED-enhanced yellow trap is compatible with Encarsia formosa releases and does not disrupt biocontrol.