Abstract
In field experiments conducted in Dillon, Horry, and Marion Counties, South Carolina, from 1964 to 1966, community-wide grower use of blacklight traps was evaluated for effectiveness in controlling the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (Johannson). Hornworm populations, as measured by field-infestation counts on field tobacco and sucker growth, were approximately the same for the light trap and the outside nontreated areas for all 3 years for the experiment. Dissected females, taken from traps, had deposited at least 50% of their eggs prior to capture, compared with laboratory-reared females. The average number of female moths captured per trap in the 2 areas was approximately the same. In a communitywide light trap program (3 traps per square mile in a 100-square-mile area), the black-light trap did not control the tobacco homworm under South Carolina conditions.
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