Monitoring ten insect pests in selected orchards in three Azorean Islands: The project CUARENTAGRI

The data we present are part of the CUARENTAGRI project, which involves all archipelagos Macaronesia (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Cabo Verde). project aims to: i) identify evaluate risks associated with introduction new arthropod pests; ii) study population dynamics selected pest species currently responsible for damage key target crops iii) develop monitoring systems, based on prediction and/or crop pests, creating warnings a phytosanitary prevention system. In this contribution, compile three Azorean (Terceira, São Jorge Miguel Islands), where pheromone-baited traps were placed in pastures, potato fields several orchards’ types (apples, banana, chestnuts, olives, orange strawberry), during consecutive years (2020, 2021 2022). A total 114,827 specimens insects (Arthropoda, Insecta) collected, belonging to four orders, six families ten recorded species. eight considered introduced ( Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar, 1824), Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura, 1931), Bactrocera oleae (Rossi, 1790), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller, 1873), Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus, 1758), splendana (Hübner, 1799) Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916); n = 84,986 specimens) two native non-endemic Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809) Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833); 17,465 specimens). This intended contribute better knowledge arthropods pests that can affect will serve as baseline future actions, risk assessments systems.