Practice-based wireworm control with a focus on optimal tillage
Abstract
An important goal of the present research project is to validate and improve the efficiency of available soil management measures against wireworm by taking into account the biology of the pest when applying them. Due to the lack of sufficient data on the flight times of the main pest species, it has not been possible to accurately determine the ideal time of tillage for an area to prevent egg laying or to cause egg clutches and newly hatched larvae to die. The goal of the "ElatMon" project (LE 14-20; Lead: LKÖ) is to develop and operate a warning service for click beetles and wireworms. For this purpose, the flight phases of the most important pest species in the potato and maize growing areas of Austria are collected by means of pheromone traps in different regions and made available to the practice via the internet platform www.warndienst.at. So far, however, there is no experience on the practicability of the recommendations in the course of common crop rotations. These knowledge gaps are to be closed in the present project. The relationship between common tillage regimes, the natural occurrence of insect pathogenic fungi and the associated wireworm incidence is sometimes unclear and will be investigated in more detail in the project. The use of preparations with insect-pathogenic fungi over a longer period of time, integrated into the crop rotation, will also be investigated.
keywords wireworm pest management soil tillage soil temperature
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Project staff
Josef Eitzinger
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Josef Eitzinger
josef.eitzinger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81422
BOKU Project Leader
01.01.2021 - 31.12.2026