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IMPROVED SEX ATTRACTANT BLEND FOR ADULT MALES OF THE GLASSY CUTWORM, CRYMODES DEVASTATOR (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. F. Steck ,
E. W. Underhill ,
B. K. Bailey  and
M. D. Chisholm
W. F. Steck
Affiliation:
Prairie Regional Laboratory, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9
E. W. Underhill
Affiliation:
Prairie Regional Laboratory, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9
B. K. Bailey
Affiliation:
Prairie Regional Laboratory, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9
M. D. Chisholm
Affiliation:
Prairie Regional Laboratory, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9
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We reported previously (Steck et al. 1977) that equal-parts mixtures of (Z)-11-hexadecenal (Z11-16:Ald) and (Z)-11-hexadecenyl acetate (Z11-16:Ac) attract male Crymodes devastator (Brace) moths to field traps, and that attraction is enhanced by incorporation of (Z)-7-dodecenyl acetate (Z7-12:Ac) in the lure. During subsequent studies with sex lures for this species we discovered that (Z)-11-hexadecenol (Zll-16:OH) is much more effective than Z7-12:Ac as a trapping synergist.

During 1978 many structural analogs of the sex attractant components were tested as lure synergists by adding 20% of each analog to a basic 2:l Z11-16:Ald + Z11-16:Ac lure, using numbers of males trapped as the criterion of effect. Z5- and Z7-10:Ac; Z5-, Z7-, and Z9-12:Ac; Z5-, Z7-, Z9-, and Z11-14:Ac; Z5-, Z7-, and Z9-16:Ac were tested in this way, as were the corresponding alcohols and aldehydes and Zll-16:OH. The (E) isomers of these along with Ell-16:Ald and E11-16:Ac were finally tested.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 112 , Issue 7 , 01 July 1980 , pp. 751 - 752
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1980

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