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Effect of methyl salicylate on behavioral responses of insects in a forest park

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Attractiveness of methyl salicylate to arthropods in natural populations was studied in a park reserve. During the observation period, representatives of several families of Diptera (the leaf-mining Agromyzidae, the predatory Hybotidae, Dolichopodidae and Empididae), parasitic micro-Hymenoptera (Mymaridae, Pteromalidae, Eulophidae, and Aphelinidae), and phytophagous bugs (Heteroptera) were recorded. Significant attractiveness of methyl salicylate to parasitic micro-Hymenoptera and dance flies (Empididae) was demonstrated. Our data confirm the possibility of attracting beneficial arthropods with methyl salicylate.

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    E. A. Stepanycheva, M. O. Petrova, T. D. Chermenskaya & I. V. Shamshev

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Original Russian Text © E.A. Stepanycheva, M.O. Petrova, T.D. Chermenskaya, I.V. Shamshev, 2016, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2016, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 295–300.

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Stepanycheva, E.A., Petrova, M.O., Chermenskaya, T.D. et al. Effect of methyl salicylate on behavioral responses of insects in a forest park. Entmol. Rev. 96, 284–287 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816030052

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