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Disruption by Conophthorin of the Kairomonal Response of Sawyer Beetles to Bark Beetle Pheromones

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Antennally active nonhost angiosperm bark volatiles were tested for their ability to reduce the response of three common species of coniferophagous wood-boring Cerambycidae to attractant-baited multiple funnel traps in the southern interior of British Columbia. Of the nonhost volatiles tested, only conophthorin was behaviorally active, disrupting the attraction of sawyer beetles, Monochamus spp., to traps baited with the host volatiles α-pinene and ethanol and the bark beetle pheromones ipsenol and ipsdienol. Conophthorin did not affect the attraction of sawyer beetles to the host kairomones α-pinene and ethanol in the absence of bark beetle pheromones, nor did it have any behavioral effect on adults of Xylotrechus longitarsis, which were not attracted to bark beetle pheromones. These results indicate that conophthorin does not act as a general repellent for coniferophagous Cerambycidae, as it seems to do for many species of Scolytidae, but has the specific activity of disrupting the kairomonal response of sawyer beetles to bark beetle pheromones.

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    W. D. Morewood, K. E. Simmonds, R. Gries, J. D. Allison & J. H. Borden

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Morewood, W.D., Simmonds, K.E., Gries, R. et al. Disruption by Conophthorin of the Kairomonal Response of Sawyer Beetles to Bark Beetle Pheromones. J Chem Ecol 29, 2115–2129 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025690519818

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