Mating Disruption for Control of Insect Pests

Organizer(s)

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  Rangaswamy Muniappan (he/him/his)

  Director, IPM Program
  Center for International Research, Education, and Development
  Virginia Tech
  Blacksburg, Virginia
• RA

  Rolando Alegria (he/him/his)

  ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.
  Riverside, California

This session features presentations from international pheromone-producing companies, U.S. universities, USDA, and Indian Central government agency. Topics include the role of semiochemical formulations for behavioral change in management of spongy moth, diamondback moth, fall armyworm, rice stemborer, cotton pink bollworm, eggplant fruit and shoot borer, spotted wing drosophila, and monitoring.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:05 AM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Rolando Alegria (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.
• 8:05 AM – 8:25 AM MST

  Efficacy of mating disruption treatment against spongy moth, Lymantria dispar dispar, applied using an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with an AKSATA (formerlyAgridrones) OAS precise applicator payload
  

  Presenting Author: Ksenia Onufrieva (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Andrea Hickman (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Tom Coleman (he/him/his) – USDA-Forest Service
• 8:45 AM – 9:05 AM MST

  Advances in mating disruption of fall armyworm and rice stem borer
  

  Presenting Author: Pedro Coelho (he/him/his) – Provivi Inc.
• 9:05 AM – 9:25 AM MST

  Mating disruption of pink bollworm of cotton in India
  

  Presenting Author: Markandeya Gorantla (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: Sashidhar Burla (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: Senthoor Raja (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: Vishal Patil (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: Mukesh Mukul (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: B Venkata Ramana Reddy (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: Nageshwar Rao (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: Subaharan Kesavan (he/him/his) – Indian Council of Agricultural Research

  Co-Author: A G Sreenivas (he/him/his) – University of Agricultural Sciences

  Co-Author: Chinna Babu (he/him/his) – Agricultural Entomology

  Co-Author: YG Prasad (he/him/his) – Central Institute for Cotton Research

  Co-Author: V B Reddy Lachagari (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.
• 9:25 AM – 9:45 AM MST

  Diamondback moth management with mating disruption
  

  Presenting Author: Taylore Sydnor – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Thomas P. Kuhar – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Alejandro Del-Pozo – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Tom Bilbo – Clemson University

  Co-Author: Jim Walenbach – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: George Kennedy – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Ashley Edwards – Virginia Cooperative Extension
• 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM MST

  Break
• 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM MST

  Eggplant shoot and fruit borer management with mating disruption in Bangladesh
  

  Presenting Author: Rangaswamy N. Muniappan (he/him/his) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Madhab Das (he/him/his) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Md Shaef Ullah (he/him/his) – Bangladesh Agricultural University

  Co-Author: Markandeya Gorantla (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: Subaharan Kesavan (he/him/his) – Indian Council of Agricultural Research

  Co-Author: Nur Jahan (she/her/hers)

  Co-Author: Ibrahim Khalil (he/him/his) – Ispahani Agro Limited

  Co-Author: Hedyiet Ullah (he/him/his) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Masudur Rahman (he/him/his) – Virginia Tech
• 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM MST

  Nano carbon matrix for delivery of fall armyworm pheromone for mating disruption
  

  Presenting Author: Subaharan Kesavan (he/him/his) – Indian Council of Agricultural Research

  Co-Author: Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research

  Co-Author: Vinay Kumar (he/him/his) – National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources

  Co-Author: Markandeya Gorantla (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Co-Author: S.N. Sushil (he/him/his) – National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources
• 10:35 AM – 10:55 AM MST

  Combining kairomones and pheromones in monitoring lures and mating disruption
  

  Presenting Author: Rodrigo da Silva (he/him/his) – BedoukianBio
• 10:55 AM – 11:15 AM MST

  Competitive or noncompetitive pheromone mating disruption: What's up with very low-density point-sources?
  

  Presenting Author: Peter McGhee – Pacific Biocontrol

  Co-Author: Christopher Hedstrom – Pacific Biocontrol
• 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM MST

  Altering insect behavior for enhanced crop protection
  

  Presenting Author: Jesse Saroli – ISCA Technologies, Inc.

  Co-Author: Agenor Mafra-Neto – ISCA Technologies, Inc.

  Co-Author: Carmem Bernardi – ISCA Technologies, Inc.

  Co-Author: Dick Pederson – ISCA Technologies, Inc.

  Co-Author: Vanessa Soria – ISCA Technologies, Inc.

  Co-Author: Max Lasiter – ISCA Technologies, Inc.
• 11:35 AM – 11:40 AM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Rolando Alegria (he/him/his) – ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd.