Table 1. Attraction of Pityogenes chalcographus to perforated cylinder traps releasing synthetic host ((+ )-alpha-pinene = (+ A), (- )-alpha-pinene = (- A), (- )-(B-pinene = (- B), and camphene = Cp) and pheromone components (methyl-E,Z-2,4-decadienoate = E,Z-MD and chalcogran = CH) in the forest (June 1-15,1986, Grib skov, Denmark). | |||||
Attraction to cylinder trap | |||||
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Landing | Entering holes | ||||
Chemicals releaseda | Total | Male proportion | Total | Male proportion | [ % ] |
test 1 | |||||
Blank | 1 | - | 0 | - | 0 |
CH | 39 | 0.26 | 8 | - | 17.0 |
E,Z-MD | 0 | - | 0 | - | - |
E,Z-MD + CH | 1376 | 0.42 | 240 | 0.35 | 14.9 |
test 2 | |||||
E,Z-MD + CH | 123 | 0.46 | 7 | - | 5.4b |
E,Z-MD + CH + (+A) + (-A) + (-B) + Cp | 482 | 0.40 | 338 | 0.35 | 41.2 |
test 3c | |||||
E,Z-MD + CH | 763 | 0.33 | 103 | 0.32 | 11.9b |
E,Z-MD + CH + (+A) | 720 | 0.33 | 318 | 0.29 | 30.6 |
E,Z-MD + CH + (-A) | 1476 | 0.33 | 815 | 0.28d | 35.6 |
E,Z-MD + CH + (-B) | 1077 | 0.35 | 618 | 0.27d | 36.5 |
E,Z-MD + CH + Cp | 749 | 0.33 | 208 | 0.24d | 21.7 |
test 4 | |||||
Blank | 4 | - | 0 | - | 0 |
0.1 x (E,Z-MD + CH) | 665 | 0.43e | 139 | 0.26 | 17.3 |
1 x (E,Z-MD + CH) | 1968 | 0.37 | 534 | 0.33 | 21.3 |
10 x (E,Z-MD + CH) | 2772 | 0.34 | 507 | 0.30 | 15.5 |
J. A. BYERS1, G. BIRGERSSON2, J. LÖFQVIST1, and G. BERGSTRÖM2 1Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden Present address: 2Chemical Ecology, Göteborg University, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden |
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