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1 April 2013 Attractant and Disruptant Semiochemicals for Dendroctonus jeffreyi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
B. L. Strom, S. L. Smith, C. Brownie
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Abstract

Jeffrey pine, Pinusjeffreyi Greville and Balfour, is a dominant yellow pine and important overstory component of forests growing on diverse sites from southwestern Oregon to Baja California to western Nevada. The Jeffrey pine beetle, Dendroctonus jeffreyi Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), is monophagous on Jeffrey pine and its primary insect pest. Despite the importance of P. jeffreyi, difficult terrain, environmental concerns, and lack of roads can constrain pest management activities. Semiochemicals are often easier to apply and more environmentally acceptable than other options, but they are lacking in this system. Attractants have been identified, but field bioassays have been limited because of infrequent or short duration outbreaks and a lack of beetles during nonoutbreak periods. Disruptant semiochemicals have not been assessed for D. jeffreyi during outbreak conditions; however, commercially available semiochemicals have been implicated as disruptants for this bark beetle. The objective of this study was to identify the most effective commercially available attractant and disruptant semiochemicals for D. jeffreyi. Our highest observed catch occurred with the blend of 5% 1-heptanol and 95% n-heptane. When this was used to challenge potential disruptant semiochemicals, the combination of S-(-)-verbenone and the green leaf volatile blend (cis-3-Hexenol and 1-Hexanol) reduced trap catch by ≈80%. However, frontalin was most effective, reducing the number of D. jeffreyi caught by >96%. Within each year of the study, the percentage female of D. jeffreyi caught with our attractant decreased from start to end of the experimental period. On average, our first collection in a year (mid-June to early July) was 59% female, whereas our last (mid-August) was 34%. Frontalin was equally or more effective against females (the pioneering sex) than males, providing optimism that semiochemical disruption may be possible for protecting Jeffrey pines from D. jeffreyi.

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B. L. Strom, S. L. Smith, and C. Brownie "Attractant and Disruptant Semiochemicals for Dendroctonus jeffreyi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)," Environmental Entomology 42(2), 323-332, (1 April 2013). https://doi.org/10.1603/EN12300
Received: 17 October 2012; Accepted: 1 January 2013; Published: 1 April 2013
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KEYWORDS
frontalin
green leaf volatiles
pheromone
Pinus jeffreyi
tree protection
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