Pheromones and attractants of click beetles: an overview

Tóth, Miklós

doi:10.1007/s10340-012-0429-y

Cited by 54 publications

(48 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Some groups of forest insects that are already attracting considerable interest as model systems for conservation are known to use attractant pheromones, such as longhorn beetles (Hanks and Millar 2016), click beetles (Toth 2013), scarabaeoids (Vuts et al 2014), and several groups of moths, although to date, only a few pheromones have been identified for species of conservation interest (Barbour et al 2011; Konig et al 2016; Larsson et al 2003; Ray et al 2012, 2014; Svensson et al 2012; Tolasch et al 2007). There also is a diverse community of additional saproxylic insects that are known or could be expected to use pheromone communication, including beetles in many other families (El-Sayed 2012; Francke and Dettner 2005) and also different species of saproxylic dipterans, including some cranefly species that exhibit obvious antennal sexual dimorphism.…”

Section: Model Systems and Their Usefulness For Conservation Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals for Monitoring Rare and Endangered Species

Larsson

2016

J Chem Ecol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As global biodiversity declines, biodiversity and conservation have become ever more important research topics. Research in chemical ecology for conservation purposes has not adapted to address this need. During the last 10–15 years, only a few insect pheromones have been developed for biodiversity and conservation studies, including the identification and application of pheromones specifically for population monitoring. These investigations, supplemented with our knowledge from decades of studying pest insects, demonstrate that monitoring with pheromones and other semiochemicals can be applied widely for conservation of rare and threatened insects. Here, I summarize ongoing conservation research, and outline potential applications of chemical ecology and pheromone-based monitoring to studies of insect biodiversity and conservation research. Such applications include monitoring of insect population dynamics and distribution changes, including delineation of current ranges, the tracking of range expansions and contractions, and determination of their underlying causes. Sensitive and selective monitoring systems can further elucidate the importance of insect dispersal and landscape movements for conservation. Pheromone-based monitoring of indicator species will also be useful in identifying biodiversity hotspots, and in characterizing general changes in biodiversity in response to landscape, climatic, or other environmental changes.

show abstract

Section: Model Systems and Their Usefulness For Conservation Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals for Monitoring Rare and Endangered Species

Larsson

2016

J Chem Ecol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Despite these mostly optimistic reports, there has been no extensive research conducted aiming to further develop mass trapping or disorientation tactics for wireworms, and this can be attributed to several likely factors. The most obvious is that pheromones have been identified for only a fraction of the key pest wireworm species worldwide, limited primarily to certain species within the Agriotes and Melanotus genera (Toth, ). In regions where several pest species co‐exist in fields, mass trapping would only be effective if pheromones for all species were available.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mark–recapture of Agriotes obscurus and Agriotes lineatus with dense arrays of pheromone traps in an undisturbed grassland population reservoir

Vernon

Herk

Blackshaw

et al. 2014

Agri and Forest Entomology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

1 The present study was conducted using mark-released populations of male Agriotes obscurus (AO) and Agriotes lineatus (AL) adults to simulate the spatial and temporal capture rates of wild beetle populations in dense arrays of pheromone traps in a confined, nonfarmed habitat. 2 Two parallel rows of traps, spaced 3 m apart along corridors of grassy dyke, recaptured 85.6% of AO and 77.8% of AL with arrays of their respective pheromone traps, mostly within the first week of release. In arrays of mixed AO and AL traps, recapture rates were 77.8% and 83.3%, respectively. 3 In arrays with only AO traps, 31.2% of AL males released within the arrays mistakenly entered the AO traps, which declined to only 2.2% when released in arrays with both AO and AL traps. In arrays with only AL traps, only 0.7% of released AO were mistakenly taken in the AL traps, and only 0.3% mistakenly entered AL traps in mixed AO and AL trap arrays. 4 Between 34.4-38.9% of AO and 21.1-25.6% of AL released in areas immediately adjacent to the trapping arrays were caught, mostly in the outermost traps. 5 The implications of these results for determining the efficacy of mass trapping as a click beetle management approach are discussed.

show abstract

“…For click beetles, the male attractant pheromone is produced by female pheromone glands located at the last abdominal segment [23]. The click beetle pheromone gland resembles a paired ball-like structure in the abdomen [16]. Merivee and Erm [23] conducted study on sex pheromone gland morphology in female Elaterid beetles and demonstrated brief morphological description of the female reproductive system of Agriotes obsucurus.…”

Section: Pheromones Source and Gland Extractmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sex or aggregation pheromone-baited traps have been used to monitor and control the populations of many insect pests [15]. The composition of sex pheromone produced in female click beetles has been identified in several species and the use of synthetic pheromone-blend compositions to control click beetles is promising [5,16].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential Application of Pheromones in Monitoring, Mating Disruption, and Control of Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

Reddy

Tangtrakulwanich

2014

ISRN Entomology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Wireworms, the larvae stage of click beetles (family, Elateridae), are serious soil dwelling pests of small grain, corn, sugar beet, and potato crops globally. Since the 1950s, conventional insecticides such as lindane provided effective and inexpensive protection from wireworms, and little integrated pest management research (IPM) was conducted. The removal of these products from the agricultural market, particularly Lindane, has resulted in increasing levels of wireworm damage to small grain, corn, and potato crops. The wireworm damage has become an increasing problem for growers, so the demand for a meaningful risk assessment and useful methods to restrict damage is increasing. However, due to the cryptic habitat of the wireworms, pest control is very difficult and leads to unsatisfying results. The prospective appropriateness of sex pheromone traps for employing management strategies against wireworm’s populations was first suggested with experimentation in Hungary and Italy. Simultaneously, considerable work has been done on the identification and use of pheromone traps to monitor population of click beetles. The work has been mostly done in European and former Soviet Union countries. For this paper, we reviewed what work has been done in monitoring the click beetle which was considered as pests and how the pheromones can be used in IPM to monitor and control wireworms/click beetles. Also, the possibilities of using the pheromone-baited traps for mating disruption and control tested in the fields were summarized.

show abstract

Pheromones and attractants of click beetles: an overview

Cited by 54 publications

References 25 publications

Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals for Monitoring Rare and Endangered Species

Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals for Monitoring Rare and Endangered Species

Mark–recapture of Agriotes obscurus and Agriotes lineatus with dense arrays of pheromone traps in an undisturbed grassland population reservoir

Potential Application of Pheromones in Monitoring, Mating Disruption, and Control of Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About