Abstract
Este trabalho demonstra a viabilidade da utilizacao de vidros porosos como materiais para armazenar e liberar feromonios de insetos, visando o controle de pragas na agricultura. Feromonios de diferentes insetos foram impregnados em vidros porosos do tipo Vycor (PVG), e o material impregnado foi caracterizado por espectroscopia de absorcao no infravermelho. A determinacao da taxa de liberacao do feromonio em laboratorio, bem como o teste pratico de captura de insetos em diferentes plantacoes, foram subsequentemente realizados. Foram realizados testes com feromonios da Grapholita molesta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) e Leucoptera coffeella (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae), as principais pestes da maca e cafe, respectivamente, em plantacoes brasileiras. Verificou-se que a taxa de liberacao do feromonio depende do tipo de interacao com as paredes dos poros do PVG. Os resultados indicaram uma boa performance do PVG, semelhante a de septos de borracha utilizados comercialmente como liberadores. Estes resultados, somados ao fato de que o PVG nao e nocivo ao meio ambiente e pode ser reutilizado em varios ciclos de impregnacao e liberacao, fazem destes vidros porosos candidatos em potencial para aplicacao no controle de pragas na agricultura. This work demonstrates the viability and advantages of using porous silica glass as an insect pheromone dispenser, in order to control insect population in agriculture. Pieces of so-called Porous Vycor Glass (PVG) were impregnated with pheromones of different insects (both consisting of a single compound or a mixture of compounds). Studies were conducted to characterize the impregnated-PVG and to determine the pheromone release ratio under laboratory conditions. The practical application was verified in two different plantation areas, using the PVG impregnated with pheromone from Grapholita molesta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and Leucoptera coffeella (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae), the main pests of apple and coffee plantations in Brazil, respectively. The release rate was dependent on the interaction between the molecules of the impregnated pheromone and the surface of the PVG pores. A good performance of the porous glass was observed, similar to that of rubber septa commercially used as pheromone dispensers.
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