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DITCHLING CORPORATION LIMITED
"Supplying professional Pest Control products since 1964"
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DITCHLING CORPORATION LIMITED
"Supplying professional Pest Control products since 1964"
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Stored Product Insects are among the most destructive and costly of pests; feeding on expensively grown, harvested, processed and stored edible products.
The control of these pests has become extremely difficult and costly with the restrictions on the treating of the products with insecticides - fumigants, bin sprays, grain protectants, etc.
NOW
............sex-attractant Pheromones are commercially available for many common insect pests.
Very small amounts of sex-attractant Pheromone are secreted by the female insect during mating periods; male insects up to half a mile away, or more, detect this scent and travel to her.
These Pheromone "scents" are species-specific and are now commercially available; they are used in traps specially designed to lure and capture the male of the species.
Pheromone traps are a valuable tool when used as part of an integrated pest management program.
Pheromone lures are available for many Stored Product Insects, including:
Angoumis Grain Moth - Sitotra cerealla
Cigarette Beetle - Lasioderma serricome
Confused Flour Beetle - Tribolium confusum
Drug Store Beetle - Stegobium paniceum
House Fly - Musca domestica
Indian Meal Moth - Plodia interpunctella
Khapra Beetle - Trogoderma granarium
Lesser Grain Borer - Rhyzopertha dominica
Mediterranean Flour Moth - Ephestia kuehniella
Saw Tooth Grain Beetle - Oryzaephilus surinamensis
Stored Product Moths - Ephestia/Plodia
Webbing Clothes Moth -Tineola bisselliella
Pheromone lures are also available for Fruit Crop Pests, Field & Vegetable Crop Pests, and Tree & Ornamental Pests.
Insect Pheromone lures which disperse specific odors to attract target species of insects into specially designed traps are playing an ever-increasing role in integrated pest management.
These traps permit pest managers to pinpoint the location of insect infestations, to define the target species and to project the size of insect populations thus allowing for efficient and appropriate eradication measures.
Testing by the US Department of Agriculture has demonstrated that systems such as these can:
* Reduce inefficient or excessive applications of insecticide.
* Minimize the creation of insect resistance to popular insecticides.
* Eliminate or substantially reduce environmental damage.
* Decrease the mortality of non-target organisms and friendly insects.
* Substantially reduce the cost of spraying by identifying
only those areas in need of control.
Under the correct conditions, employing mass trapping techniques, pest managers in the US and overseas have used successfully Pheromone-driven systems to trap out or substantially reduce insect populations if concentrations are addressed early in the reproductive or infestive stages.
Traps have been shewn to be effective in mating disruption when the Pheromone load is increased. This offers a safe, proven alternative to toxic chemicals in many situations.
An Innovative New Dispenser
Makes it The Most Efficient Yet.
All Pheromones are released in the field via some controlled release technology. Unfortunately, not all controlled release technologies offer both uniform and prolonged release rates.
This means some models release the majority of attractant early in the trapping cycle while others simply offer shorter trapping periods due to rapid pheromone dispersal over a short period of time.
The highly successful and efficient dispenser system is designed to release the precious Pheromone at a precise rate over an exact and predictable period of time.
Why Pheromones Are Better.
The creators of these Pheromones have designed extremely precise and predictable polymeric membranes that release the Pheromones of greatly differing properties at optimum rates.
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