Tobacco Budworm: Behavioral Effects of Dispensing Virelure or Seven-Component Pheromone in Small Cotton Plots1
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 12 (3) , 738-743
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/12.3.738
Abstract
Application of virelure or the seven-component pheromone of tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), to small plots resulted in mate trap capture reductions of 99 to 100%. However, infield mating of native adults was reduced only 26 to 48% as determined by nocturnal observations. Pheromone treatments also resulted in a significant delay in the time when peak mating occurred and altered the sex ratio of adults by reducing the number of males in treated plots up to 61.7% compared with check plots.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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