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SEX ATTRACTANT BLENDS FOR STRAWBERRY CUTWORM, AMPHIPOEA INTEROCEANICA (SMITH), AND A CLOSELY RELATED SPECIES, AMPHIPOEA AMERICANA (SPEYER) (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

D.L. Struble ,
G.L. Ayre  and
J.R. Byers
D.L. Struble
Affiliation:
Agriculture Canada Research Station, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4B1
G.L. Ayre
Affiliation:
Agriculture Canada Research Station, 195 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2M9
J.R. Byers
Affiliation:
Agriculture Canada Research Station, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4B1
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The strawberry cutworm, Amphipoea interoceanica (Smith), has recently become an important pest of strawberry plants in Manitoba (Ayre 1980) and Quebec (Mailloux and Bostanian 1985). Larvae damage or kill the plants and commercial plantings are sometimes heavily damaged. Strawberry cutworm is widely distributed in North America and is broadly sympatric with a morphologically similar species, Amphipoea americana (Speyer) (Forbes 1954), which is occasionally a pest of corn (Gibson 1920). Sex pheromones of these species have not been reported, although Roelofs and Comeau (1971) found that males of strawberry cutworm were attracted to (Z)-9-tetradecenyl acetate (abbrev. Z9- 14:Ac). A sex attractant for strawberry cutworm would provide a convenient method for monitoring population levels in the vicinity of strawberry fields.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 119 , Issue 3 , March 1987 , pp. 301 - 303
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1987

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