Abstract
Green electroluminescent lamps were compared with a circline ultraviolet (UV) lamp for their effectiveness in attracting stored-product insects to a suction light trap in laboratory rooms and in peanut warehouses. Indian-meal moths, Plodia interpunctella (Hubner), and Mediterranean flour moths, Anagasta kuehniella (Zeller), responded in greater numbers to radiation from eight 0.06-watt green lamps than to 1 circline 32-watt UV lamp. Almond moths, Cadra cautella (Walker), and Angoumois grain moths, Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier), showed no preference for either lamp. Five beetles: the cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorn (F.); the merchant grain beetle, Oryzaephilus mercator (Fauvel); the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae(L.); the red flour beetlc, Tribolium castanleum (Herbst); and the lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (F.), responded in greater numbers to the UV lamp radiation.
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