Plastic Cup Traps Equipped with Light-Emitting Diodes for Monitoring Adult Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae)

Abstract

Equipping the standard plastic cup trap, also known as the CC trap, with lime-green light-emitting diodes (LED-plastic cup trap) increased its efÞcacy for catching Bemisia tabaci by 100%. Few Eretmocerus eremicus Rose and Zolnerowich and Encarsia formosa Gahan were caught in LED-plastic cup traps. The LED-plastic cup traps are less expensive than yellow sticky card traps for monitoring adult whiteßies in greenhouse crop production systems and are more compatible with whiteßy parasitoids releases for Bemisia nymph control.