Femilure

Female Fruit Fly Attractant

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F e m i lu r e CC Femilure is a female fruit fly attractant lure specially designed for monitoring and mass trapping.

It is based on nature identical food attractants. It provides a consistent release over a period of 90 days. It has no negative effect on environment and non-target beneficial insects.

Target insects: ■ Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean Fruit Fly ■ Bactrocera zonata, Peach Fruit Fly ■ Bactrocera dorsalis, Oriental Fruit Fly ■ Bactrocera cucurbitae, Cucurbit Fruit Fly ■ Bactrocera invadens, African Invader Fruit Fly and other fruit flies.

Target crops: ■ Citrus (orange, mandarin,

■ Apricot,

■ Fig,

lemon, others),

■ Peach,

■ Guava,

■ Nectarine,

■ Grape and other stone fruits

How IT WORKS Femilure sachets are placed inside the McPhail/ Flycatcher trap, together with caplet of insecticide or sticky trapping card in order to kill the attracted females flies. Traps should be hung on the sunny part of the tree at 1.5-2m above ground level.

KEY advantages: ■ Selective and effective Female Fruit Fly Attractant.

■ Long field longevity (90 days), Protecting early fruits until the end of season.

■ No negative effect on environment and non-target beneficial insects.

■ IPM compatible management tool that ensures no pesticide application

directly onto fruit.

■ Significantly reduces blanket or spray of pesticide application.

■ Safe, effective and environment friendly fruit fly solution.

Precautions: ■ ■ ■ ■

Keep out of reach of Children.

Follow safety advice mention in product label.

Handle carefully; always use gloves during trap preparation.

Store Femilure in a cool and dry place.

■ Dispose in compliance with local legislations.

Field trials of Femilure mass-trapping Femilure mass-trapping has been evaluated in peach against Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. Application of Femilure mass-trapping reduced the number of the background population of Ceratitis capitata and maintained a satisfactory level of control.

The evaluation of fruit damages show a high reduction in the number of dropped fruits, the number of softened/dropped fruits, the number of softened fruits remaining on the tree and the number of larvae per fruit. Mass-trapping using Femilure reduced significantly fruit damages and total damages were recorded 4 times less than the control. Femilure consistently protects 91% of crop damage in comparison to control plots.

Russell IPM is one of the leading

sensitive adhesive coating equipment

manufacturers of insect pheromone

to produce various sizes and formats

based monitoring and control products.

of boards and rolls, and has the

Our core expertise is pheromone based

capability to incorporate pheromones

Biorational solutions. In addition to formulating 150 insect pheromone lures for insects from around the world, a variety of pheromone

and attractants into the adhesive layer/ emulsion gel for controlled release.

As recognition of our outstanding

mediated control systems have been

achievements Russell PM has been

developed for important agricultural

awarded Queen’s Award for Enterprise;

and horticultural pests. Russell IPM

Innovation 2012 and Queen’s award for

uses the latest technology in pressure

Enterprise; International Trade 2011.

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