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MOLECULAR VIBRATION AND INSECT ATTRACTION: DACUS OLEAE (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. N. Stavrakis  and
R. H. Wright
G. N. Stavrakis
Affiliation:
Kifissia, Athens, Greece
R. H. Wright
Affiliation:
6822 Blenheim St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Abstract

Field tests demonstrated the attractiveness of several compounds to the olive fly, Dacus oleae Gmel.; a correlation with far infrared absorption bands was derived; and dl-homocysteine thiolactone hydrochloride was tested because of its conformity with this pattern. Field tests confirmed the predicted attractiveness of this and a few other compounds, and also an anti-attractant property in menthol and in butyl butyrate.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 106 , Issue 3 , March 1974 , pp. 333 - 335
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1974

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