Effect of Monoterpene Vapors on the Western Pine Beetle
- 1 June 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 58 (3) , 509-510
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/58.3.509
Abstract
Vapors of different monoterpenes from Pinns ponderosa, primary host of the western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis LeConte, varied in their toxicity to this insect: limonene > ∆a-carene > myrcene > β-pinene ≍ α-pinene > control.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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