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1 April 2012 Influence of Trap Color and Host Volatiles on Capture of the Emerald Ash Borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Damon J. Crook, Ashot Khrimian, Allard Cossé, Ivich Fraser, Victor C. Mastro
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Abstract

Field trapping assays were conducted in 2009 and 2010 throughout western Michigan, to evaluate lures for adult emerald ash borer, A. planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Several ash tree volatiles were tested on purple prism traps in 2009, and a dark green prism trap in 2010. In 2009, six bark oil distillate lure treatments were tested against manuka oil lures (used in 2008 by USDA APHIS PPQ emerald ash borer cooperative program). Purple traps baited with 80/20 (manuka/phoebe oil) significantly increased beetle catch compared with traps baited with manuka oil alone. In 2010 we monitored emerald ash borer attraction to dark green traps baited with six lure combinations of 80/20 (manuka/phoebe), manuka oil, and (3Z)-hexenol. Traps baited with manuka oil and (3Z)-hexenol caught significantly more male and total count insects than traps baited with manuka oil alone. Traps baited with manuka oil and (3Z)-hexenol did not catch more beetles when compared with traps baited with (3Z)-hexenol alone. When compared with unbaited green traps our results show that (3Z)-hexenol improved male catch significantly in only one of three field experiments using dark green traps. Dark green traps caught a high number of A. planipennis when unbaited while (3Z)-hexenol was seen to have a minimal (nonsignificant) trap catch effect at several different release rates. We hypothesize that the previously reported kairomonal attractancy of (3Z)-hexenol (for males) on light green traps is not as obvious here because of improved male attractancy to the darker green trap.

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Damon J. Crook, Ashot Khrimian, Allard Cossé, Ivich Fraser, and Victor C. Mastro "Influence of Trap Color and Host Volatiles on Capture of the Emerald Ash Borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 105(2), 429-437, (1 April 2012). https://doi.org/10.1603/EC11204
Received: 22 June 2011; Accepted: 4 November 2011; Published: 1 April 2012
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KEYWORDS
(3Z)-hexenol
Agrilus planipennis
dark green trap
manuka oil
phoebe oil
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