Boll Weevils: 1 The Relative Importance of Color and Pheromone in Orientation and Attraction to Traps 23
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 7 (1) , 4-6
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/7.1.4
Abstract
Saturn Yellow was important in orienting and attracting boll weevils, Anthonomus grandis Boheman, to baited and unbaited traps at a distance of 2 m or less; moderately important at distances up to 6 or 7 m; and not important at greater distances. When boll weevils were given a choice between 2 colors of traps in the same circle, the average number of responding marked females was the same (28%) regardless of whether the red traps were baited and the yellow traps unbaited or whether grandlure was in all traps. However, untreated (no pheromone) Saturn Yellow traps spaced 8 m apart caught only 4.4% of released female boll weevils.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A Laboratory Diet Containing Egg Albumin for Larval and Adult Boll Weevils123Journal of Economic Entomology, 1967