Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 781-789Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0330
Keywords
weevil; olfactometric behavior; ethologic control; integrated pest management
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- Natural Resources Program of the Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco-Chile)
- CONICYT [AT 24080090]
- FONDECYT [1070270]
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of host volatiles in the relationship between a blueberry plant Vaccinium corymbosum L. and the raspberry weevil Aegorhinus superciliosus (Guerin) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), the principal pest of blueberry in the south of Chile. Volatiles from the aerial part of different phenological stages of the host were collected on Porapak Q and analyzed by coupled gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Several chemical groups were identified including green leaf volatiles, aromatic compounds, and terpenes. The olfactometric responses of A. superciliosus toward different odor sources were studied in a four-arm olfactometer. Blueberry shoots at the phenological stages of fruit set, and blue-pink fruit color elicited the greatest behavioral responses from weevils. Five compounds (2-nonanone, eucalyptol, R- and S-limonene, and 4-ethyl benzaldehyde) elicited an attractant behavioral response from A. superciliosus. The results suggest the host location behavior of A. superciliosus could be mediated by volatiles derived from V. corymboston. This work has identified a number of compounds with which it is possible to develop a lure for the principal pest of blueberry in southern Chile.
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