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1 May 2011 Response of Summerform Pear Psylla (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) to Male- and Female-Produced Odors
Christelle Guédot, David R. Horton, Peter J. Landolt
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We examined the role of chemical signals in sex attraction of pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola (Förster), assessing the response of summerform male and female psyllids to male- and female-produced volatile chemicals. Male psyllids were attracted to odors from live females and pentane extracts of females. Extracts of females were as attractive to males as live females, suggesting that the female-produced volatile chemicals responsible for male attraction might be isolated by extracting females with pentane. Females were not attracted to odorants from live females and tended to avoid odorants from extracts of females. Furthermore, summerform males and females were not attracted or repelled by male-produced odorants from live males or extracts of males. Results of olfactometer assays using male summerform C. pyricola are consistent with results from earlier studies with the winterform morphotype of this species.

© 2011 Entomological Society of Canada
Christelle Guédot, David R. Horton, and Peter J. Landolt "Response of Summerform Pear Psylla (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) to Male- and Female-Produced Odors," The Canadian Entomologist 143(3), 245-253, (1 May 2011). https://doi.org/10.4039/n11-003
Received: 16 September 2010; Accepted: 1 December 2010; Published: 1 May 2011
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