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Traps baited with synthetic pheromones are in widespread use in the survey and detection of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.) and other important insect pests in many parts of the world. In the United States approximately 95,000 pheromone traps were deployed to monitor the gypsy moth in 1979. Pheromone traps offer several advantages over other methods of sampling populations. First, such traps are relatively inexpensive and easy to deploy. Gypsy moth traps can be set in place early in the summer and left untended until early fall. Second, pheromone traps generally catch only the target species. The time-consuming sorting to species required for other kinds of traps is avoided. Third, pheromone traps are effective at extremely low population densities. Other sampling methods for the gypsy moth, such as egg mass surveys or collecting pupae in burlap bands wrapped around tree trunks, are impractical when density is low or the area to be surveyed is large.
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Elkinton, J.S., Cardé, R.T. (1981). The Use of Pheromone Traps to Monitor Distribution and Population Trends of the Gypsy Moth. In: Mitchell, E.R. (eds) Management of Insect Pests with Semiochemicals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3216-9_5
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