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Pheromones

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Alternatives to Pesticides in Stored-Product IPM

Abstract

Pheromones are chemical signals used between members of the same species (Karlson and Lüscher 1959, Nordlund 1981). Many of the known insect pheromones operate as long-range attractants by luring one or more adult individuals to the pheromone-producing individual. Sex pheromones are released by members of one sex to attract members of the opposite sex for the sole purpose of mating. Aggregation pheromones are typically released by one sex and attract male and female conspecific individuals to locations where mating occurs and where females find oviposition sites on appropriate larval food substrates. Thus, pheromones operate in special biological contexts, and they are very species- specific. Pheromones differ from other less specific insect attractants, such as odors from food or host plants, which may be general attractants for numerous species. Research on insect pheromones has flourished in the last 30 years because of advances in the collection, isolation, and chemical identification of very small quantities of pheromones produced by living insects (Millar and Haynes 1998). At this time, attractant pheromones have been identified and synthesized for most major stored-product insect pests. Synthetic pheromones can be used to lure large numbers of certain pest species into traps. Methods have been researched for manipulating and suppressing populations with pheromones. However, at the present time, pheromones are not typically being used to suppress insect pest populations. Rather, synthetic pheromones are routinely used in traps as detection and monitoring tools in pest management programs. Additionally, traps baited with non-pheromone food attractants, and unbaited traps that passively capture insects, are used for monitoring insect populations in stored-product habitats. This chapter will cover the use of pheromones and related trapping and luring technologies as IPM tools, and it will also explore the potential for developing pheromone-based methods for pest population suppression.

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