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Effects of juvenile hormone mimics on the codling moth Cydia Pomonella (L.) (Lep., Olethreutidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

I. Gelbič  and
F. Sehnal
I. Gelbič
Affiliation:
Institute of Entomology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Viničná 7, Praha 2, Czechoslovakia
F. Sehnal
Affiliation:
Institute of Entomology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Viničná 7, Praha 2, Czechoslovakia
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Abstract

Laboratory experiments with juvenile hormone analogues on Cydia pomonella (L.) showed that Cecropia C17 juvenile hormone (methyl 10,ll-epoxy-3,7,ll-trimethyl-2,6-dodecadienoate) was the most active of the 28 compounds tested. When applied to four-hour-old eggs at 0.1 μg/egg, the hormone caused 100% failure in embryogenesis, while the other compounds were at least five times less effective. Depending on the time since ecdysis and the dose, juvenile hormone mimics applied to last-instar larvae resulted in a wide range of intermediate forms. Against three-day-old last-instar larvae, the Cecropia C17 hormone gave 100% inhibition of development at a dose of 1 μg/larva, while three other compounds (methyl 10,11-epoxy-3,7,11-trimethyl-2,6-dodecadienoate, ethyl 11-chloro-3,7,11-trimethyl-2-dodecenoate and ethyl 3,7,11-tri-methyl-2,4-dodecadienoate) gave the same effect at 2–5 μg/larva. Against newly emerged adults, the last two compounds at 10–50 μg/insect reduced fecundity and fertility to 0–81% and 0–50%, respectively, of their normal levels.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , August 1973 , pp. 7 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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