Asian longhorned beetle eradicated from Manhattan/Staten Island
The tree-devouring Asian longhorned beetle has not yet been driven from the gates of the city, but, by Jove, pest-control...
Our latest paper – Asian longhorned beetle pheromone ratios
Our latest paper is now out in the Journal of Chemical Ecology from our collaboration with the Hoover Lab at Penn State. Congratulations Peter!
ABSTRACT
Native to China and Korea, the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), is a polyphagous wood-boring pest for which a trapping system would greatly beneÞt eradication and management programs in both the introduced and native ranges. Over two Þeld seasons, a total of 160 ßight intercept panel traps were deployed in Harbin, China, which trapped a total of 65 beetles. In 2012, traps using lures with a 1:1 ratio of the male- produced pheromone components (4-(n-heptyloxy)butanal and 4-(n-heptyloxy)butan-1-ol) de- signed to release at a rate of 1 or 4 milligram per day per component in conjunction with the plant volatiles (-)-linalool, trans-caryophyllene, and (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol caught signiÞcantly more A. glabri- pennis females than other pheromone release rates, other pheromone ratios, plant volatiles only, and no lure controls. Males were caught primarily in traps baited with plant volatiles only. In 2013, 10
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