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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- 19 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Agricultural and Forest Entomology
- Vol. 7 (3) , 193-200
Abstract
Abstract 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 α‐pinene. Ipsdienol is the principal pheromone component of I. pini , and frontalin is produced by a number of Dendroctonus species. α‐Pinene is a host monoterpene commonly incorporated into commercial frontalin lures. 4 Thanasimus dubius was attracted to frontalin plus α‐pinene, and also to racemic ipsdienol. By contrast, I. pini was attracted to racemic ipsdienol, but showed no attraction to frontalin plus α‐pinene. Platysoma cylindrica was attracted to 97%‐(–)‐ipsdienol and, to a lesser extent, racemic ipsdienol, but not to frontalin plus α‐pinene. Ips grandicollis was attracted to frontalin plus α‐pinene but not to ipsdienol. Dryophthorus americanus was attracted to both ipsdienol and frontalin plus α‐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 α‐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.Keywords
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