Studies on Attractants of the Pine Bark Beetles. Part I

Sex attractants in frass from bark beetles.

Shortly after Kangas et al. (1) reported that a-terpineol was the major component of a primary host attractant for Blastophagus piniperda L., Silverstein, Rodin, and Wood (2) revealed the identity of three other terpene alcohols that play a role in the orientation of bark beetles. However, Silverstein et al. concluded, from laboratory bioassay, that a mixture of the three terpene alcohols they ...

Pheromone response in pine bark beetles: influence of host volatiles.

Influence of temperature on spring flight initiation for southwestern ponderosa pine bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae).

Determination of temperature requirements for many economically important insects is a cornerstone of pest management. For bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), this information can facilitate timing of management strategies. Our goals were to determine temperature predictors for flight initiation of three species of Ips bark beetles, five species of Dendroctonus bark beetles, a...

The pine bark adelgid

3 Elena R. Toenshoff, Gitta Szabó, Daniela Gruber, Matthias Horn 4 5 1 Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, A6 1090 Vienna, Austria. 7 2 Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, A-1090 Vienna, 8 Austria. 9 10 11 Running title: Bacterial symbionts of Pineus strobi 12 13 * Both authors contributed equally to t...

Sorption of pentachlorophenol on pine bark.

The minimization of pentachlorophenol (PCP) transport in the environment driven by industrial wastewater discharges can be accomplished by sorption in natural, available and low cost by-products like pine bark. Taking into account that PCP is a chemical which behaviour is highly dominated by the surrounding features, this work intended to evaluate the sorption kinetics and equilibrium parameter...