Title: | "Identification of Volatiles From Plants Infested With Honeydew-Producing Insects, and Attraction of House Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) to These Volatiles" |
Author(s): | Hung KY; McElfresh JS; Zou Y; Wayadande A; Gerry AC; |
Address: | "Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District, Indio, CA. Department of Entomology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1938-2928 (Electronic) 0022-2585 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "House flies (Musca domestica L.) are mechanical vectors of food-borne pathogens including Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Shigella spp., resulting in increased risk of diarrheal disease in areas where flies are abundant. Movement of house flies into food crops may be increased by the presence of honeydew-producing insects feeding on these crops. Using gas chromatography-electroantennogram detection (GC-EAD) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), volatile odors that elicited house fly antennal response were identified from naval orange (Osbeck) (Sapindales: Rutaceae) and Marsh grapefruit (Macfad.) (Sapindales: Rutaceae) leaves infested with whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and from whole faba (L.) (Fabales: Fabaceae) bean plants infested with aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Volatiles identified included benzaldehyde, butyl hexanoate, beta-caryophyllene, Delta3-carene, (E)-4,8-dimethyl-1,3,7-nonatriene (DMNT), (Z)-3-hexenyl acetate, myrcene, limonene, linalool, and naphthalene. This was followed by semifield bioassays of volatile blends and individual volatiles to determine house fly attraction to these volatiles. Although fly capture rates in the semifield setting were low, benzaldehyde and (Z)-3-hexenyl acetate were consistently attractive to house flies as individual compounds and as components of volatile blends" |
Keywords: | Animals Aphids Arthropod Antennae/*physiology Female Hemiptera Houseflies/*physiology Insect Vectors Magnoliopsida/*chemistry Male Odorants Pheromones/*analysis Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis aphid food safety microbiota odor whitefly; |
Notes: | "MedlineHung, Kim Y McElfresh, J Steven Zou, Yunfan Wayadande, Astri Gerry, Alec C eng Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. England 2019/12/15 J Med Entomol. 2020 May 4; 57(3):667-676. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjz232" |