Journal of Chemical Ecology 2010-06-01

Attractiveness of a four-component pheromone blend to male navel orangeworm moths.

Hiroo Kanno, L P S Kuenen, Kimberly A Klingler, Jocelyn G Millar, Ring T Cardé

Index: J. Chem. Ecol. 36(6) , 584-91, (2010)

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Abstract

The attractiveness to male navel orangeworm moth, Amyelois transitella, of various combinations of a four-component pheromone blend was measured in wind-tunnel bioassays. Upwind flight along the pheromone plume and landing on the odor source required the simultaneous presence of two components, (11Z,13Z)-hexadecadienal and (3Z,6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z)-tricosapentaene, and the addition of either (11Z,13Z)-hexadecadien-1-ol or (11Z,13E)-hexadecadien-1-ol. A mixture of all four components produced the highest levels of rapid source location and source contact. In wind-tunnel assays, males did not seem to distinguish among a wide range of ratios of any of the three components added to (11Z,13Z)-hexadecadienal. Dosages of 10 and 100 ng of the 4-component blend produced higher levels of source location than dosages of 1 and 1,000 ng.

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