Title: | Attraction responses of the American cockroach to synthetic periplanone-B |
Address: | "Institute of Zoology, Academic Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Synthetic periplanone-B has been shown not only to be a sex excitant to malePeriplaneta americana by bioassay in the laboratory but also an attractant pheromone by field tests in a rice storage house in Taipei. During both summer and winter months, it attracted signincantly more adult males into the traps used in the experiments than adult females. There is a statistically significant increase in the sex ratio (male-female) of the trapped adults with increase in periplanone-B used. An attempt has been made to explain the trapping of females and nymphs in addition to males by the chemicals used in our tests" |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEChow, Y S Wang, S F eng 1981/03/01 J Chem Ecol. 1981 Mar; 7(2):265-72. doi: 10.1007/BF00995749" |