Aijun Zhang, Lip Foo Kuang, Navies Maisin, Bhanu Karumuru, David R Hall, Ike Virdiana, Smilja Lambert, Hussin Bin Purung, Shifa Wang, Prakash Hebbar
The previously identified female sex pheromone of cocoa pod borer, Conopomorpha cramerella, was re-evaluated for its attractive activity in different field conditions. It was found that lures containing 100-mug of synthetic sex pheromone blend, (E,Z,Z)- and (E,E,Z)-4,6,10-hexadecatrienyl acetates, and the corresponding alcohols in a ratio of 40:60:4:6 in a polyethylene vial attracted male C. cramerella moths in Sabah and peninsular Malaysia and in Sumatra and Sulawesi, Indonesia, suggesting that the same pheromone strain existed in a wide stretch of the Indo-Malayan archipelago...
June 2008: Environmental Entomology