Lure-and-kill technology to manage beetle pests (Sitona lineatus and Bruchus rufimanus) of field beans and peas

本项目旨在设计和生产一种控制豌豆和豆类甲虫害虫的系统，该系统不使用地毯式喷洒杀虫剂。取而代之的是，甲虫将被引诱到简单的装置上，用甲虫特有的诱人气味作为诱饵，在那里它们将被一种昆虫真菌疾病的孢子覆盖。当它们离开装置时，它们会将疾病传播给其他像它们一样的甲虫。这将减少害虫甲虫的数量和对作物的损害，但与杀虫剂喷洒不同，它不会影响环境或其他有益的和非目标昆虫，如传粉蜜蜂。这种昆虫真菌疾病在英国的土壤中自然发生，不会对其他动物构成风险。使用的引诱剂要么是昆虫产生的（一种特定的信息素），要么是开花的豌豆和豆类产生的气味。孢子和引诱剂将以一种新颖的配方制备，这种配方带静电，粘在甲虫身上，并在它们相遇时传递给其他甲虫。

This project aims to design and produce a control system for beetle pests of peas and beans, which does not use blanket sprays of insecticides. Instead, the beetles will be lured to simple devices, baited with beetle specific attractive odours, where they will be coated with spores of an insect fungal disease. When they leave the device they will spread the disease to other beetles like them. This will reduce pest beetle numbers and damage to the crops, but, unlike insecticide sprays, will not affect the environment or other beneficial and non-target insects such as pollinating bees. The insect fungal disease occurs naturally in the soil in the UK and does not pose a risk to other animals. The attractants used are either insect produced (a specific pheromone) or are odours produced by flowering peas and beans. The spores and the attractants will be prepared in a novel formulation that is electrostatically charged and sticks to the beetles body and is passed on to other beetles when they meet.