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Female-Biased Attraction of Oriental Fruit Fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), to a Blend of Host Fruit Volatiles From Terminalia catappa L.

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Coupled gas chromatography-electroantennogram detection (GC-EAD) analysis of volatiles from tropical almond fruit, Terminalia catappa L., revealed 22 compounds that were detected by antennae of oriental fruit fly females, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel). Both solid-phase microextraction (SPME) and Porapak Q were used for sampling odors in fruit headspace, with SPME collections producing larger EAD responses from a greater number of compounds. Geranyl acetate and methyl eugenol elicited the largest EAD responses. A synthetic blend containing SPME collected, EAD stimulatory compounds showed female-biased attraction in laboratory wind tunnel bioassays, but heavily male-biased trap captures in a larger olfactometer arena. A nine-component subset of compounds eliciting relatively small EAD responses (EAD minor) and consisting of equal parts ethanol, ethyl acetate, ethyl hexanoate, hexyl acetate, linalyl acetate, ethyl nonanate, nonyl acetate, ethyl cinnamate, and (E)-β-farnesene, attracted mainly females. This EAD minor blend was as attractive to females and much less attractive to males when compared to torula yeast in field cage experiments using glass McPhail traps. Similar results were obtained with outdoor rotating olfactometer tests in which the EAD minor blend was almost completely inactive for males.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Lori Carvalho and Janice Nagata for their assistance in conducting behavioral bioassays and electrophysiological recordings and Charlie Rodd for providing fruit from Kauai. We also thank Dr. J. C. Dickens, Dr. C. Linn Jr., and Dr. D. M. Light for their helpful comments on an early version of this manuscript.

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Siderhurst, M.S., Jang, E.B. Female-Biased Attraction of Oriental Fruit Fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), to a Blend of Host Fruit Volatiles From Terminalia catappa L.. J Chem Ecol 32, 2513–2524 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-006-9160-6

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