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Early Acoustic Detection of Grain Storage Insect Pests (BeetleSoundTube)
Project
Project code: 80170084, JKI-ÖPV-08-1369
Contract period: 01.09.2017
- 31.08.2022
Budget: 1,249,084 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: insect pests, early detection, acoustics, storage protection, grain pests, bioacoustics
Insect pests in grain storages can cause severe financial losses. Infested grain needs to be treated and can only be sold with lower profit. Intense infestation can lead to contamination with mycotoxins and total loss of stock. The “beetle sound tube”-system is an innovative method to identify insect infestation at an early stage using acoustics. Compared to other methods such as traps, inspection and temperature monitoring the “beetle sound tube”-system allows far earlier detection. Therefore treatment can start earlier, hotspots, damage, and succeeding losses can be prevented. Additionally, the introduction of parasitoids via tube system will be tested. This could facilitate the access to the area of infestation and could increase the efficacy of biological control. The “beetle sound tube”-system shall provide farmers and warehouse keepers with information about insect species and pest density that will be combined with suggestions for control treatments. Results will be spread through workshops, a handbook for farmers/warehouse keepers, presentations on exhibitions and conferences, papers in journals and via internet, and the EIP-Network.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Protection
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Participating institutions
- Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants – Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)
- BayWa AG
- Biological consulting Prozell und Schöller GmbH
- Müller-BBM GmbH
- Dammann & Westerkamp GmbH (WEDA)
- agrathaer GmbH
- Fördergemeinschaft Ökologischer Landbau Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (FÖL)
- Kreisbauernverband Potsdam-Mittelmark e.V. (KBV)
- Biohof SteinReich Koch & Alt GbR
- Gut Schmerwitz GmbH & Co. KG
- AGRAR TECHNIK BARNIM
- Belziger Kraftfutter GmbH
