Title: Trapping Procedures for Fruit Flies of the Family Tephritidae

Specification No. 35

Title: Trapping procedures for fruit flies of the family Tephritidae.

Reason for the standard/support document: These guidelines containing trapping procedures are required to support the suite of standards developed under the mandate of the Technical panel on pest free areas and systems approaches for fruit flies (TPFF). The use of specific traps and lures is a key component in the process to establish and maintain fruit fly pest free areas (FF-PFA), fruit fly free places of production (FFF-POP), fruit fly free production sites (FFF-PS) and fruit fly areas of low pest prevalence (FF-ALPP) and to develop fruit fly systems approaches (FF-SA).

Scope and purpose: This support document will provide specific guidance on the technical procedures required to effectively operate a trapping network for fruit flies. The main use for trapping is for fruit fly surveillance.

Tasks: The TPFF should:

1. Consider existing relevant ISPMs and ensure consistency with other ISPMs, in particular ISPM No. 26 (Establishment of pest free areas for fruit flies (Tephritidae)) and ISPMs under development, in particular FF-ALPP and FF-SA.

2. Consult all relevant technical scientific literature, trapping procedure manuals available in the major operational programmes worldwide and the FAO/IAEA Trapping Guideline for Area-Wide Fruit Fly Programmes.

3. Address trapping procedures for the main fruit flies of economic importance worldwide.

4. Draft a comprehensive trapping procedure guideline that includes the following aspects:

a)  trapping objectives

b)  trapping applications

c)  traps and lures available for fruit fly survey

d)  factors that will influence trap effectiveness

e)  parameters used to estimate fruit fly populations through trapping

f)  description of trapping procedures including placement location and physical location in the field

g)  trap densities according to use (establishment and maintenance)

h)  re-bait and inspection intervals

i)  target-species addressed

j)  quality control for trapping materials and operational procedures

k)  documentation and record keeping and data management including harmonized data collection sheets

l)  traceability

m)  trap contents diagnostics timeframe

n)  capacity to identify target and non-target Tephritidae caught in traps

o)  other important aspects for fruit fly trapping procedures.

Provision of resources: Funding is provided by the regular programme of the IPPC Secretariat (FAO) except where expert participation is voluntarily funded by the expert’s government.

Steward: Walther Enkerlin.

Collaborator: To be determined.

Expertise: TPFF members.

Participants: TPFF members.

Approval: Added to the work programme by CPM-1 (2006). Specification approved by the Standards Committee, May 2006.

References: IPPC (1997); WTO-SPS Agreement; ISPMs No. 4, 6, 8, 10, 22 and 26 and ISPMs under development (FF-ALPP and FF-SA), FAO/IAEA Trapping Guideline for Area-Wide Fruit Fly Programmes, relevant scientific literature.

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