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A SEX ATTRACTANT FOR THE COTTONWOOD CROWN BORER, AEGERIA TIBIALIS (LEPIDOPTERA: SESIIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

E. W. Underhill ,
W. Steck ,
M. D. Chisholm ,
H. A. Worden  and
J. A. G. Howe
E. W. Underhill
Affiliation:
National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9
W. Steck
Affiliation:
National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9
M. D. Chisholm
Affiliation:
National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9
H. A. Worden
Affiliation:
PFRA Tree Nursery, Department of Regional Economic Expansion, Indian Head, Saskatchewan S0G 2K0
J. A. G. Howe
Affiliation:
PFRA Tree Nursery, Department of Regional Economic Expansion, Indian Head, Saskatchewan S0G 2K0
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Abstract

Male moths of Aegeria tibialis Harris, a lepidopterous pest of poplar cutting beds in nurseries, were strongly attracted to virgin females and to mixtures of Z3, Z13-octadecadien-1-ol and its acetate. Extracts of female abdominal tips yielded two fractions stimulatory to male antennae. These fractions corresponded to a C18 alcohol and a C18 acetate. Electroantennogram measurements using synthetic chemicals demonstrated that appreciable male antennal stimulation occurred only with C18 compounds having Z-unsaturation at positions 3 or 13, indicating that the synthetic sex attractant may be the natural pheromone of this species.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 110 , Issue 5 , 01 May 1978 , pp. 495 - 498
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1978

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