WHAT IS ecosav-M1?
-
This trap is sold with a CE certificate.
-
It protects cultivated mushrooms from the damage of mushroom flies.
-
It enables to grow mushroom without using pesticides, resulting in residue-free mushrooms.
-
It catches mushroom flies of all sizes. (0.5-6 mm)
-
Mushroom flies do not increase population during the mushroom cultivation.
-
The use of trap generally result in approximately an increase of 30% in mushroom yield.
-
In the production room used ecosav-M1, bacterial and fungal diseases remain locally during the cultivation.
-
Mass trapping of mushroom flies using ecosav-M1 reduces enormously in the incidence of mycelial and sporophore damage by the larvae of mushroom flies.
-
In conclusion, mass trapping using ecosav-M1 can be used as an alternative way of controlling mushroom flies.
-
The use of ecosav-M1 in conjunction with good management (in the form of compost pasteurization, fly screening, fumigation of rooms, and general good hygiene) can reduce the use of chemical insecticides, or enable insecticide-free production, and may provide a marketing benefit.
IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ!
Mushroom flies generally develop resistance to many groups of insecticides, therefore, it is very hard to control them. Many of the insecticide-treated flies do not die but loss flying capability. However, they continue to live on the surface of compost or casing soil, and females can go on egg-laying activity, resulting in many newly hatched larvae. Both the hatching larvae are fed by eating the mycelia and the used chemical insecticides, many of which have not be registered for mushroom flies, have a mycotoxic activity against the mycelia of cultivated mushrooms. So, mushroom yield enormously decreases during the harvest times. Since such insecticides decrease mushroom yield and quantity, they should not be used during the mushroom cultivation.
No insecticides should not be used in mushroom production rooms, where ecosav-M1 has already been used, because the flies not died but knock down cannot fly and not trapped by ecosav-M1.
DESIGN PROCESS
The first design studies of the ecosav-M1 electrical light trap were conducted by Kekova Enerji Tarım Ltd. Şti. , located in Antalya (Turkey) to respond to the demand of a local grower.
It is aimed to control mushroom flies (Diptera: Phoridae, Sciaridae, Cecidomyiidae, Scatopsidae), the most important insect pest group damaging to cultivated mushrooms in Turkey.
ecosav-M1 product was developed under the consultancy of Prof. Dr. Fedai ERLER (Entomologist and Head of Plant Protection Department of Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey, and taken its current form as a result of R&D studies supported by KOSGEB and Akdeniz University Techno-Park.
At this stage, ecosav-M1 was licensed by the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and its international patent (PCT) process has also been completed. During the preliminary experiments carried out in two successive mushroom growing periods in the Antalya-Korkuteli District, the main production area, where more than 50% of the total compost production and approximately 45% of the fresh mushrooms sold in Turkey are produced, it was observed that the trap successfully caught mushroom flies of all sizes (0.5-6 mm).
The results from the preliminary experiments showed that mass trapping of mushroom flies using ecosav-M1 reduced the incidence of sporophore damage by the larvae of mushroom flies in both growing periods and resulted in significantly lower damage rates (8.3% and 11.2% in the first and second growing periods, respectively) when compared with the traditional/convectional room (21.4% and 33.6%, respectively). Moreover, significant yield increase in both growing periods occurred in ecosav-M1 room (4.4 and 4.0 kg total yield/15 kg packaged-pasteurized and spawned compost) compared with traditional/conventional room (3.6 and 3.3 kg, respectively).
Ecosav-M1 was awarded in Agricultural Innovation Category at Growtech EURASIA Agriculture Exhibition held in 2019.