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Title:		"Western pine beetle: field response to its sex pheromone and a synergistic host terpene, myrcene"
Author(s):		Bedard WD; Tilden PE; Wood DL; Silverstein RM; Brownlee RG; Rodin JO;
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Journal Title:		Science
Year:		1969
Volume:		164
Issue:		3885
Page Number:		1284 - 1285
DOI:		10.1126/science.164.3885.1284
ISSN/ISBN:		0036-8075 (Print) 0036-8075 (Linking)
Abstract:		"In the field, both sexes of the western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis, are attracted by the female-produced bicyclic ketal exo-brevicomin; this response is enhanced by myrcene (a constituent of the beetle's host, ponderosapine), which is not an attractant by itself. This synergism may be part of the phenomenon of the mass attack on its host. Temnochila virescens chlorodia, one of the principal insectan predators of this beetle, is attracted by exo-brevicomin alone"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEBedard, W D Tilden, P E Wood, D L Silverstein, R M Brownlee, R G Rodin, J O eng 1969/06/13 Science. 1969 Jun 13; 164(3885):1284-5. doi: 10.1126/science.164.3885.1284"