Interactions between male moths of the lightbrown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) (Lep.: Tort.), landing on synthetic sex pheromone sources in a wind-tunnel

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. R. RUMBO
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Epiphyas Postvittana ◽  
Synthetic Sex Pheromone ◽  
Lightbrown Apple Moth

New Sex Pheromone Blend for the Lightbrown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 640-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashraf M. El-Sayed ◽  
Vanessa J. Mitchell ◽  
Lee-Anne M. Manning ◽  
David Max Suckling
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Epiphyas Postvittana ◽  
Lightbrown Apple Moth ◽  
Sex Pheromone Blend ◽  
Pheromone Blend

RESPONSES OF MALE SPRUCE BUDWORM MOTHS TO SEX PHEROMONE RELEASED FROM FILTER PAPER AND RUBBER SEPTA

1990 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Filter Paper ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Spruce Budworm ◽  
Synthetic Pheromone ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Rubber Septa ◽  
Synthetic Sex Pheromone ◽  
Pheromone Blend

AbstractThe behavioral responses of male spruce budworm moths to a wide range of loadings of synthetic sex pheromone on filter paper and rubber septa were investigated in a wind tunnel. The highest proportion of males flying upwind and reaching filter-paper dispensers occurred at pheromone loadings of between 0.1 and 10 μg. Above these loadings, males were activated but upwind flight was arrested before the moths reached the pheromone source. No such arrestment occurred with rubber septa up to the maximum loading assayed, 1 mg. Up to 72% of the males that reached a septum attempted to copulate with it, but even this response was less than that to a septum in the presence of pheromone emitted by females. This confirms previous conclusions that the synthetic pheromone blend used here, 95:5 (E:Z-11-tetradecenal) is incomplete.

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