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Long term pest monitoring for click beetles at the UBC farm Carrillo, Juli; Clausen, Martina; Cabra, César; Van Herk, Wim; Tam, Jordan

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Click beetles are pests of economic concern in BC. Since 2018 we are monitoring for two species of click beetles at the UBC Farm, Agriotes lineatus and Agriotes obscurus, using pitfall traps baited with pheromone lures. In total, we deployed 20 traps paired in ten locations, with each location possessing one trap baited for A. lineatus and one trap baited for A. obscurus. Each week from April to July samples are collected from these traps and the click beetles are identified and counted. This project enables long-term estimates of click-beetle populations at the UBC Farm, while also providing long-term biodiversity estimates of ground-dwelling insects at the farm in general. The collected data will measure fluctuations in click beetle abundance in different habitat elements over time.

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Title	Long term pest monitoring for click beetles at the UBC farm
Creator	Carrillo, Juli; Clausen, Martina; Cabra, César; Van Herk, Wim; Tam, Jordan
Contributor	Summers, Oliver; Kyu, Jimmy (UBC); Larter, Sadie (UBC); Raghuraman, Savitri (UBC); Wong, Grace (UBC); Renn, Sophia (UBC); Hooft Toomey, Ebba (UBC)
Date Issued	2021-10-26
Description	Click beetles are pests of economic concern in BC. Since 2018 we are monitoring for two species of click beetles at the UBC Farm, Agriotes lineatus and Agriotes obscurus, using pitfall traps baited with pheromone lures. In total, we deployed 20 traps paired in ten locations, with each location possessing one trap baited for A. lineatus and one trap baited for A. obscurus. Each week from April to July samples are collected from these traps and the click beetles are identified and counted. This project enables long-term estimates of click-beetle populations at the UBC Farm, while also providing long-term biodiversity estimates of ground-dwelling insects at the farm in general. The collected data will measure fluctuations in click beetle abundance in different habitat elements over time.
Subject	Agricultural Sciences; agricultural pests; click beetles; wireworms; pitfall traps; long-term pest monitoring
Type	Dataset
Date Available	2021-08-03
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0402612
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/WL0DXB
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/WL0DXB
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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