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JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 197-206Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10905-011-9293-5
Keywords
bark beetles; blue-stained sapwood; endo-brevicomin; frontalin; subterranean termites
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- USDA Forest Service Forest Health Protection and Southern Research Station
- Mississippi Forestry Commission
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Surprisingly little research has been conducted to investigate interactions between subterranean termites and bark beetles. Facilitative interactions between these organisms could easily alter stand dynamics and impact wood utilization strategies. A series of American Wood Protection Association Standard E1-09 choice tests were carried out to determine the feeding preference of Reticulitermes flavipes Kollar (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) for blue-stained sapwood and sapwood impregnated with various bark beetle pheromones. Reticulitermes flavipes exhibited a feeding preference for both air-dried and kiln-dried blue-stained sapwood, unstained sapwood treated with frontalin, and air-dried blue-stained sapwood treated with a 0.02% solution of both frontalin and endo-brevicomin. The implications of these results are far reaching, with particular relevance to forest health, ecology, and utilization.
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