Evaluation of Frontalin and Exo-brevicomin as Kairomones to Control Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in Lodgepole Pine

Chatelain, M. P.; Schenk, John A.

doi:10.1093/ee/13.6.1666

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“…In the single instance in which this tactic has been tested, lodgepole pine trees were baited with frontalin to attract the clerid predator Thanasimus undatulus, and the baits were removed prior to attack by the mountain pine beetle to avoid augmenta-tion of prey individuals. The incidence of T. undatuhts larvae was increased three-fold by this procedure but mortality of emerging mountain pine beetles was increased by only 7.1% (Chatelain and Schenk 1984).…”

Section: Sexploitation or The Kairomonal Response By Entomophagous Inmentioning

confidence: 92%

Semiochemicals and bark beetle populations: Exploitation of natural phenomena by pest management strategists

Borden

1989

Ecography

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An analysis of semiochemical communication between host trees, bark beetles and commensal or entomophagous insects discloses five principal means by which semiochemicals can influence the population dynamics of bark beetles. These are: mediation of aggregation and mass attack on new hosts, cessation of aggregation and shifting of attack to uninhabited hosts, induction of aggregation by competing species, inhibition of aggregation by competing species, and mediation of host finding by commensal and entomophagous insects. Further analysis suggests major points of natural vulnerability which lead to six fundamental strategies for potential pest management: prevention of production of aggregation pheromones, sabotage of olfactory perception, exploitation of semiochemical‐based secondary attraction, exploitation of antiaggregation pheromones, exploitation of repellent allomones, and exploitation of the kairomonal response by entomophagous insects. Investigations of the many possible tactics arising from these strategies have led to three types of operational pest management programs: prevention of pheromone production by excluding bark beetles from their hosts; suppression of bark beetle populations through the utilization of semiochemical‐baited traps, trees or logs; and the use of antiaggregation pheromones to protect vulnerable hosts from attack.

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Section: Sexploitation or The Kairomonal Response By Entomophagous Inmentioning

confidence: 92%

Semiochemicals and bark beetle populations: Exploitation of natural phenomena by pest management strategists

Borden

1989

Ecography

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“…A similar problem might arise as a result of natural sources of pheromone in the environment where tests are performed. It is worthwhile noting that it is possible in bark beetles for certain pheromone components determined to be inhibitors or inactive in trapping tests to induce or increase the risk of mass attacks when deployed alone on host trees Chatelain and Schenk, 1984). This implies that by their very nature trap tests can conceal potentially undesirable attractive or attack-inducing effects.…”

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Semiochemicals in the Natural History of Southern Pine Beetle Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann and Their Role in Pest Management

Sullivan

2016

Advances in Insect Physiology

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“…Several authors have proposed reducing the economic damage caused by bark beetles by using semiochemicals to attract predators to incipient outbreaks (Richerson et al ., 1980; Chatelain & Schenk, 1984; Borden, 1989). Similarly, attracting predators away from pheromones used during trap‐out removal could conserve natural enemies.…”

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Selective manipulation of predators using pheromones: responses to frontalin and ipsdienol pheromone components of bark beetles in the Great Lakes region

Aukema

Raffa

2005

Agri and Forest Entomology

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1 One proposed approach to improving biological control of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae; alt. Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is to manipulate predator movement using semiochemicals. However, selective manipulation is impeded by attraction of both predators and pests to bark beetle pheromones. 2 The primary bark beetle affecting pine plantations in Wisconsin, U.S.A., is the pine engraver, Ips pini (Say). Other herbivores include Ips grandicollis (Eichhoff) and Dryophthorus americanus Bedel (Curculionidae). The predominant predators are the beetles Thanasimus dubius (Cleridae) and Platysoma cylindrica (Histeridae). 3 We conducted field assays using two enantiomeric ratios of ipsdienol, and frontalin plus a-pinene. Ipsdienol is the principal pheromone component of I. pini, and frontalin is produced by a number of Dendroctonus species. a-Pinene is a host monoterpene commonly incorporated into commercial frontalin lures. 4 Thanasimus dubius was attracted to frontalin plus a-pinene, and also to racemic ipsdienol. By contrast, I. pini was attracted to racemic ipsdienol, but showed no attraction to frontalin plus a-pinene. Platysoma cylindrica was attracted to 97%-(-)-ipsdienol and, to a lesser extent, racemic ipsdienol, but not to frontalin plus a-pinene. Ips grandicollis was attracted to frontalin plus a-pinene but not to ipsdienol. Dryophthorus americanus was attracted to both ipsdienol and frontalin plus a-pinene. 5 This ability to selectively attract the predator T. dubius without attracting the principal bark beetle in the system, I. pini, provides new opportunities for research into augmentative biological control and basic population dynamics. Moreover, the attraction of T. dubius, but not P. cylindrica, to frontalin plus a-pinene creates opportunities for selective manipulation of just one predator. 6 Patterns of attraction by predators and bark beetles to these compounds appear to reflect various degrees of geographical and host tree overlap with several pheromone-producing species.

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Evaluation of Frontalin and Exo-brevicomin as Kairomones to Control Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in Lodgepole Pine

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Semiochemicals and bark beetle populations: Exploitation of natural phenomena by pest management strategists

Semiochemicals and bark beetle populations: Exploitation of natural phenomena by pest management strategists

Semiochemicals in the Natural History of Southern Pine Beetle Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann and Their Role in Pest Management

Selective manipulation of predators using pheromones: responses to frontalin and ipsdienol pheromone components of bark beetles in the Great Lakes region

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