Title: | Components of female sex pheromone ofEoreuma loftini Dyar |
Author(s): | Shaver TN; Brown HE; Williams HJ; Woods LT; Worley J; |
Address: | "Southern Crops Research Laboratory, USDA, ARS, Cotton Insects Research Unit, P.O. Drawer DG, 77841, College Station, Texas" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Three chemicals isolated from ovipositor rinses of virgin femaleEoreuma loftini Dyar (Mexican rice borer) moths were identified as (Z)-13-octadecenyl acetate (I), (Z)-11-hexadecenyl acetate (II), and (Z)-13-octadecenal (III) in the approximate ratio 8ratio1ratio1.3, respectively. Preliminary tests indicate that in laboratory bioassays, these chemicals in the above ratio induce the same activity response as heptane extracts of rice borer ovipositors. Only one combination of two chemicals (I and III, 6.2ratio1 ratio) elicited a similar response. Individual chemicals elicited no response. In field tests, the average number of male rice borer moths caught per night over a five-night period was the same in traps baited with 200-600-mug quantities of the 8ratio1ratio1.3 ratio of chemicals dispensed from strips of filter paper as with traps baited with virgin females. The two-component mixture (I and III, 6.2ratio1 ratio) was not active in the field" |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEShaver, T N Brown, H E Williams, H J Woods, L T Worley, J eng 1988/01/01 J Chem Ecol. 1988 Jan; 14(1):391-9. doi: 10.1007/BF01022554" |