Laboratory and Field Study of the Attraction of Male Pea Midges, Contarinia pisi, to Synthetic Sex Pheromone Components |
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Authors: | Ylva Hillbur Ashraf El-Sayed Marie Bengtsson Jan Löfqvist Anthony Biddle Ernst Plass Wittko Francke |
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Affiliation: | (1) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Protection Sciences, S-23O53 Alnarp, Sweden;(2) Department of Plant Protection Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-23O53 Alnarp, Sweden;(3) Present address: Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Vineland Station, Ontario, Canada, LOR 2EO;(4) Processors and Growers Reserach Organisation, Thornhaugh, Peterborough, PE8 6HJ, UK;(5) Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg, D-2O146 Hamburg, Germany |
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Abstract: | Behavioral activity of the recently identified sex pheromone components of the pea midge, Contarinia pisi, (2S,11S)-diacetoxytridecane, (2S,12S)-diacetoxytridecane, and 2-acetoxytridecane, was tested in wind tunnel and field-trapping experiments. In the wind tunnel, the attractancy of the three-component blend in a 7 : 10 : 0.1 ratio (following the above order, mimicking the ratios found in gland extract) did not differ significantly from female gland extract, whereas a mixture of the two major components (7 : 10) only attracted 2% of the males to the source. In the field, traps baited with the three-component blend caught by far the largest number of males. Traps baited with the two major components only caught slightly more than the blank traps, and catches in traps baited with 2-acetoxytridecane alone did not differ from catches in the blank traps. Traps baited with the racemate of all three components did not catch more than the blank traps, indicating that some of the enantiomers are inhibitory. |
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Keywords: | Contarinia pisi Cecidomyiidae Diptera sex pheromone (2S 11S)-diacetoxytridecane (2S 12S)-diacetoxytridecane 2-acetoxytridecane wind tunnel field trapping |
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