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SEX PHEROMONE OF CONOPHTHORUS PONDEROSAE (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE) IN A COASTAL STAND OF WESTERN WHITE PINE (PINACEAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Daniel R. Miller ,
Harold D. Pierce Jr ,
Peter de Groot ,
Nicole Jeans-Williams ,
Robb Bennett  and
John H. Borden
Daniel R. Miller*
Affiliation:
D.R. Miller Consulting Services, 1201–13353 108th Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada V3T 5T5
Harold D. Pierce Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
Peter de Groot
Affiliation:
Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, P.O. Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada P6A 5M7
Nicole Jeans-Williams
Affiliation:
Centre for Environmental Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
Robb Bennett
Affiliation:
Tree Improvement Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, 7380 Puckle Road, Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada V8M 1W4
John H. Borden
Affiliation:
Centre for Environmental Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
*
1 Author to whom all correspondence should be sent at the following address: Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 230 Green Street, Athens, Georgia 30602-2044, United States (E-mail: dmiller/srs_athens@fs.fed.us).
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An isolated stand of western white pine, Pinus monticola Dougl. ex D. Don, on Texada Island (49°40′N, 124°10′W), British Columbia, is extremely valuable as a seed-production area for progeny resistant to white pine blister rust, Cronartium ribicola J.C. Fisch. (Cronartiaceae). During the past 5 years, cone beetles, Conophthorus ponderosae Hopkins (= C. monticolae), have severely limited crops of western white pine seed from the stand. Standard management options for cone beetles in seed orchards are not possible on Texada Island. A control program in wild stands such as the one on Texada Island requires alternate tactics such as a semiochemical-based trapping program. Females of the related species, Conophthorus coniperda (Schwarz) and Conophthorus resinosae Hopkins, produce (+)-pityol, (2R,5S)-2-(1-hydroxyl-l-methylethyl)-5-methyl-tetrahydrofurana, sex pheromone that attracts males of both species (Birgersson et al. 1995; Pierce et al. 1995). The host compound a-pinene significantly increases attraction of male C. coniperda to pityol-baited traps in stands of eastern white pine, Pinus strobus L. (de Groot et al. 1998).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 132 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 243 - 245
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2000

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