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Pest Manag Sci

Title:		"Floral attractants for the female soybean looper, Thysanoplusia orichalcea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)"
Author(s):		Stringer LD; El-Sayed AM; Cole LM; Manning LA; Suckling DM;
Address:		"The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Ltd (HortResearch), Lincoln, New Zealand. lstringer@hortresearch.co.nz"
Journal Title:		Pest Manag Sci
Year:		2008
Volume:		64
Issue:		12
Page Number:		1218 - 1221
DOI:		10.1002/ps.1621
ISSN/ISBN:		1526-498X (Print) 1526-498X (Linking)
Abstract:		"BACKGROUND: The soybean looper, Thysanoplusia orichalcea (F.), is a polyphagous insect pest of vegetable crops. Indonesian in origin, it has spread to Europe, India, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The identification of an attractant for female T. orichalcea could enable the development of alternative pest management strategies to those provided by insecticides or sex pheromones, which are often only attractive to males. RESULTS: Traps baited with synthetic lures derived from Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop., floral volatiles attracted female T. orichalcea. Phenylacetaldehyde, a floral compound attractive to many Lepidoptera and present in C. arvense, was tested alone as an attractant for the soybean looper and caught significantly more female than male T. orichalcea. Trap catch was greatest when phenylacetaldehyde was combined with five prevalent volatiles present in C. arvense headspace collections: 2-phenylethyl alcohol, methyl salicylate, dimethyl salicylate, benzaldehyde and benzyl alcohol. Twice as many female moths as males were collected. CONCLUSION: Successful trapping of female T. orichalcea in either a lure-and-kill or a mass trapping system may offer an effective way to manage its population size"
Keywords:		"Acetaldehyde/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology Animals Appetitive Behavior/*drug effects Cirsium/*chemistry Female Flowers/chemistry Insect Control/*methods Male Moths/*drug effects Oils, Volatile/pharmacology Pheromones/pharmacology Plant Oils/pharmaco;"
Notes:		"MedlineStringer, Lloyd D El-Sayed, Ashraf M Cole, Lyn M Manning, Lee-Anne M Suckling, David M eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2008/07/11 Pest Manag Sci. 2008 Dec; 64(12):1218-21. doi: 10.1002/ps.1621"