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An aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments
BACKGROUND: Pest eradication strategies that use pesticides require application methods that have the lowest environmental and human health impact while maintaining the highest probability of success. This is highly important when eradication takes place in sensitive areas, such as urban or riparian...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25674478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-750 |
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author | Strand, Tara M Rolando, Carol A Richardson, Brian Gous, Stefan Bader, Martin KF Hammond, Don |
author_facet | Strand, Tara M Rolando, Carol A Richardson, Brian Gous, Stefan Bader, Martin KF Hammond, Don |
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description | BACKGROUND: Pest eradication strategies that use pesticides require application methods that have the lowest environmental and human health impact while maintaining the highest probability of success. This is highly important when eradication takes place in sensitive areas, such as urban or riparian zones. A new aerial application method, the spot-gun, was developed to provide good pesticide coverage on host species while minimising off-target exposure. This type of targeted aerial approach is useful in areas where conventional broadcast aerial spraying was historically used but was not ideal due to the quantity of pesticide hitting non-host species and going off-target. An even distribution of the active component is essential for eradication. FINDINGS: The spot-gun method was tested and found to provide an even distribution of dye on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces as well as in the top and middle regions in both the inner and outer portions of the canopy. The form of the deposits on the leaf surface was very different from that obtained using a broadcast aerial application with a conventional spray boom. CONCLUSIONS: The distribution results imply that the spot-gun method treatment will provide good efficacy. The implications of the different deposit pattern on efficacy are not known at this stage. This aerial spot-spray method has considerable potential as a tool for targeted aerial application of pesticides to small areas of difficult to reach canopies. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-3-750) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-43202042015-02-11 An aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments Strand, Tara M Rolando, Carol A Richardson, Brian Gous, Stefan Bader, Martin KF Hammond, Don Springerplus Short Report BACKGROUND: Pest eradication strategies that use pesticides require application methods that have the lowest environmental and human health impact while maintaining the highest probability of success. This is highly important when eradication takes place in sensitive areas, such as urban or riparian zones. A new aerial application method, the spot-gun, was developed to provide good pesticide coverage on host species while minimising off-target exposure. This type of targeted aerial approach is useful in areas where conventional broadcast aerial spraying was historically used but was not ideal due to the quantity of pesticide hitting non-host species and going off-target. An even distribution of the active component is essential for eradication. FINDINGS: The spot-gun method was tested and found to provide an even distribution of dye on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces as well as in the top and middle regions in both the inner and outer portions of the canopy. The form of the deposits on the leaf surface was very different from that obtained using a broadcast aerial application with a conventional spray boom. CONCLUSIONS: The distribution results imply that the spot-gun method treatment will provide good efficacy. The implications of the different deposit pattern on efficacy are not known at this stage. This aerial spot-spray method has considerable potential as a tool for targeted aerial application of pesticides to small areas of difficult to reach canopies. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-3-750) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer International Publishing 2014-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4320204/ /pubmed/25674478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-750 Text en © Strand et al.; licensee Springer. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Strand, Tara M Rolando, Carol A Richardson, Brian Gous, Stefan Bader, Martin KF Hammond, Don An aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments |
title | An aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments |
title_full | An aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments |
title_fullStr | An aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments |
title_full_unstemmed | An aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments |
title_short | An aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments |
title_sort | aerial spot-spraying technique: a pilot study to test a method for pest eradication in urban environments |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25674478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-750 |
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