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2011

Sammendrag

Kairomones intersecting host searching females is an attractive method for species-specific pest control. Apple fruit moth, Argyresthia conjugella, is a major pest of apples in Fennoscandia. The severity of the attacks on apple happens as a response to large scale masting in the moths principal host rowan, Sorbus aucuparia. Co-occurrence of volatile compounds in rowan and apple is suggested to facilitate the forced host shift. The apple fruit moth responds to odour from its principal host with upwind orientation in a wind tunnel. Host responding apple fruit moths have high plasticity to blend ratios suggesting why a specialist insect can locate alternative host during intermast years and damage apples. However, even with all host compounds present, distortions of blend ratios seriously jeopardize upwind orientation in laboratory bioassays. In a combined approach with wind tunnel bioassays and field trapping, we have now identified a seven-component blend which is highly attractive for gravid female apple fruit moths. The new blend is especially attractive in apple crops, showing high odour competition compared to the secondary host. Verification of the blend in monitoring to achieve increased precision of pesticide sprays, establishment of economic damage thresholds and mass trapping is ongoing.

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