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Disruption of Long-Distance Pheromone Communication in the Oriental Fruit Moth: Camouflaging the Natural Aerial Trails from Females?

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Management of Insect Pests with Semiochemicals

Abstract

The feasibility of disrupting “long-distance”pheromone communication by atmospheric permeation with synthetic pheromone has now been demonstrated in the field for numerous species of Lepidoptera (Roelofs, 1979), including the Oriental fruit moth, Grapholitha molesta (Gentry et al., 1975; Rothschild, 1975, 1979; Cardé et al., 1977a; Charlton and Cardé, 1980). Notwithstanding the substantial progress achieved within the last several years in the application of this technique, the mechanisms by which disruption of communication is effected remain speculative. This paper summarizes, for the Oriental fruit moth, the orientation and mating behaviors of the male as mediated by the female-emitted pheromone and suggests how these reactions may be modified by atmospheric permeation with synthetic disruptant. Understanding these processes requires characterization of the chemical components comprising the natural chemicalcommunication system, description of how the pheromone disperses in a wind field, and definition of the threshold concentrations of pheromone eliciting the natural mating behaviors.

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    Ring T. Cardé

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Cardé, R.T. (1981). Disruption of Long-Distance Pheromone Communication in the Oriental Fruit Moth: Camouflaging the Natural Aerial Trails from Females?. In: Mitchell, E.R. (eds) Management of Insect Pests with Semiochemicals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3216-9_31

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