Dalopius marginatus (L.) (Coleoptera: Elateridae) is a very common click beetle species developing in forest soils an area from southwest Europe to eastern Siberia. Here, we studied the composition of female-released sex pheromone D. using coupled gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Neryl octanoate, neryl decanoate, and dodecanoate, ratio approximately 1:100:3, were only volatile comp...

Belowground herbivores impact plant performance, thereby inducing changes in plant community composition, which potentially leads to cascading effects onto higher trophic levels and ecosystem processes and productivity. Among soil-living insects, external root-chewing generalist herbivores have the strongest impact on plants. However, the lack of knowledge on their feeding behaviour under field...

A survey of maize fields was conducted in northeast Italy from 1986 to 2014, resulting in a dataset of 1296 records including information on wireworm damage to maize, plant-attacking species, agronomic characteristics, landscape and climate. Three wireworm species, Agriotes brevis Candeze, A. sordidus Illiger and A. ustulatus Schäller, were identified as the dominant pest species in maize field...

The complexes of click beetles in the perennial plantations Western Caucasus are formed at expense species from surrounding (adjacent) biotopes. In forest zone, by their similarity to meadow biotopes (biocenoses) with inclusions dominant foothill lane. Agriotes tauricus Heyd., and Drasterius bimaculatus (Rossi) common all lanes zones studied region. Species gurgistanus (Fald.), Melanotus fuscic...

Abstract The wheat wireworm, Agriotes mancus (Coleoptera: Elateridae), is a predominant elaterid pest species in the Nearctic region, with life history and morphology similar to those of obscurus , lineatus sputator three Palearctic elaterids invasive North America. Here, we report identification field testing sex pheromone A. mancus. We collected headspace volatiles from female beetles on Pora...

The article highlights the theoretical generalization and a new solution to problem, which is develop substantiate elements of system protection sugar beet from pests control their numbers in Vinnytsia region, based on number when using insecticides for seed treatment spraying crops with chemical biological drugs. species composition harmful entomofauna has been specified 14 have identified, in...