Claim · model-written summary
Male plum curculios were most attracted to mechanically punctured plum volatiles, which induced copulation.
- Taxon
- plum curculios
Conotrachelus nenuphare0 - Treatment
- volatiles from mechanically punctured plumse0
- Interactor
- plums
Prunus domesticae0host - Outcome
- male copulationse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Male plum curculios were most strongly attracted to volatiles released from females feeding on plums and to volatiles from mechanically punctured plums, which induced male copulations.”
Title
Adult Plum Curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Attraction to Fruit and Conspecific Odors
Tracy C. Leskey; Ronald J. Prokopy Annals of the Entomological Society of America 2001. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0275:apccca]2.0.co;2
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Male plum curculios were most attracted to females feeding on plums.
- Intervention effect Males were not attracted to grouped males alone.
- Intervention effect Males were not attracted to a single male alone.
- Intervention effect Males were not attracted to synthetic grandisoic acid alone.
- Intervention effect Adding male odor stimuli to plums did not enhance male attraction relative to plums alone.
- Intervention effect Females were attracted to female odors alone.
- Intervention effect Females were attracted to male odors alone.
- Intervention effect Females were attracted to synthetic grandisoic acid alone.
- Intervention effect Female attraction to conspecific or pheromone odors was not evident with plum odors present, especially punctured plum volatiles.
- Observation Females may produce an odor attractive to male plum curculios.
- Observation Both sexes produce an odor attractive to female plum curculios.
- Observation Both sexes were strongly attracted to host plum volatiles and only mildly attracted to conspecific or synthetic pheromone odors under the test conditions.
- Recommendation The authors recommend punctured plum volatiles as material for identifying curculio attractants.