Dismate Strategy

Dismate PE (Plodia &Ephestia) is a powerful non-toxic mating disruption system used to combat food moths in food processing and manufacturing facilities. It is a proven system with real life experience over 17 years in manufacturing facilities across Europe. By reducing the likelihood of successful mating, Dismate PE rapidly and substantially decreases the resident population food moths such as Plodia and Ephestia species and prevents a subsequent population from becoming established. When applied as recommended, Dismate can permanently remove and prevent moth infestations in food processing and storage premises.

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What is Mating Disruption?

Lifecycles

Dismate PE works by releasing pheromones from strategically placed Dismate PE dispensers to disorient male moths. When a male moth detects the pheromone, he immediately begins to flutter around looking for the female, using up his energy and dying before he has the opportunity to mate. As female moths lay fewer and fewer eggs the longer they wait to mate, and any eggs that are produced are of poor quality, the resident moth population can be effectively and efficiently removed. The system then provides permanent protection from a further resident population developing.

Why use Dismate?

Almost every area where food is processed will have moths. Most areas will have some kind of monitoring system such as glue traps, funnel traps with a pheromone lure or a pheromone trap such as the Xlure RTU. Up until now the only treatments have been with the use of poisons either by gassing or by spraying. Today more and more companies in the food industry are moving away from poisons and demanding non-toxic solutions.

Dismate PE is a non toxic treatment for the food moths Plodia and Ephestia. The product was first used in the UK in 2001. A large breakfast cereal manufacturer decided they no longer wished to have poisons in their factory and their pest controller asked Russell IPM if there was an alternative. Russell IPM proposed Dismate and an 8 month trial was commenced. The trial proved such a success that a 10 year long term study was begun to gather the data for a product registration and we now have a Europe wide registration for Dismate PE.

Continuing fall in moth counts

When Dismate was installed in a large chocolate factory dramatic results were seen.

Before Dismate was used the company would stop production every thirteen weeks and carry out a deep clean. Then two days of treatment with pesticides followed by a further deep clean to remove any pesticide residue. Not only was this procedure expensive but also caused a loss of sixteen days production annually.

During this time, they recorded over 4500 moths per year in the monitoring system. When they began with Dismate they stopped the poison treatments and the deep cleaning but continued with the routine daily cleaning. In the first year of Dismate use the moth counts fell to 450 per year. Last year the moth counts fell again to 113 moths and this year the counts have fallen to 4 per month. Similar results have been demonstrated in flour mills and bakeries also.

Third party information – Articles & Fact Sheets

Food industry moths always a problem and a challenge

Fest Management in the Food lndustry

Dismate PE – a safe food moth control system based on mating disruption without using chemical pesticides

Focus on Agriculture

Indian Meal Moth Fact Sheet ONE

Indian Meal Moth Fact Sheet TWO

Indian Meal Moth Fact Sheet THREE