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SEX PHEROMONE OF DENDROCTONUS PSEUDOTSUGAE (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE): PRODUCTION, BIO-ASSAY, AND PARTIAL ISOLATION1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John H. Borden ,
R. M. Silverstein  and
R. G. Brownlee
John H. Borden
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
R. M. Silverstein
Affiliation:
Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
R. G. Brownlee
Affiliation:
Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
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Abstract

Attractive frass was produced by female D. pseudotsugae within 2 hours after boring into fresh Douglas-fir logs and peak attraction was reached in 8 hours. Production declined after 2 weeks but increased again if the females were allowed to attack new logs. Frass was collected, stored at −40°C, and extracted in benzene. The extract was distilled and chromatographed on a silica gel column. An olfactometer was developed in which beetles walking toward a light, passed into a narrow air stream. If the air stream contained attractive substances, beetles oriented upwind. Males showed a weak positive response to female frass extract and distillate over a wide range of low stimulus intensities and an abrupt increase at higher intensities. Over 20% of the test beetles responded to concentrations of 5.1 × 10−4 and 2.3 × 10−3 g-equiv of extract and distillate respectively, while stimulus intensities 100 times greater evoked responses over 80%. The silica gel fraction that eluted in the volume between 350 and 400 ml contained a highly attractive component.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 100 , Issue 6 , June 1968 , pp. 597 - 603
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1968

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