BORNEOL AS AN ATTRACTANT FOR CYZENIS ALBICANS, A TACHINID PARASITOID OF THE WINTER MOTH, OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA L. (LEPIDOPTERA: GEOMETRIDAE)
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 127 (3) , 413-421
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent127413-3
Abstract
Volatile compounds were isolated and identified from a crude extract of garry oak, Quercus garryana, foliage which was known to be attractive to the tachinid fly Cyzenis albicans. Candidate compounds were identified by the combined use of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, and infra-red spectroscopy. Specific oak-leaf volatiles were field-tested in 2 different years in an apple orchard. Compounds were applied singly or in combination to individual apple trees; the number of C. albicans entering the canopy of each tree was observed and the number of eggs they oviposited on foliage was estimated. Borneol was the only compound that attracted flies when compared with the other treatments, but this did not result in more fly eggs being oviposited on borneol-treated trees. None of the compounds tested resulted in a greater number of Cyzenis eggs being oviposited. A greater abundance of borneol in oak foliage than in apple foliage, and its attractiveness to C. albicans, may explain the aggregation of flies in response to feeding-damage among oak trees and the absence of this pattern among apple trees. Les substances volatiles ont été isolées et identifiées dans un extrait brut du Chêne de Garry, Quercus garryana, dont le feuillage attire la mouche tachinide Cyzenis albicans. Les substances présumées attirantes ont été identifiées par la combinaison de deux méthodes, chromatographie en phase gazeuse–spectrométrie de masse, et par spectroscopie infra-rouge. Les substances volatiles spécifiques aux feuilles du chêne ont servi au cours de tests en nature dans un verger de pommiers pendant 2 années. Les substances ont été vaporisées une à une ou en combinaisons à des pommiers choisis; le nombre de C. albicans qui ont envahi le feuillage de chacun des arbres a été enregistré et le nombre d’oeufs qu’ils ont pondus sur le feuillage a été estimé. Parmi les substances testées, seul le bornéol s’est avéré posséder des propriétés attirantes, mais il n’y avait pas plus d’oeufs pondus sur les pommiers traités au bornéol que sur les autres pommiers. Aucune des substances n’a provoqué de pontes plus importantes de Cyzenis sur les pommiers. L’abondance de bornéol plus grande dans le feuillage des chênes que dans le feuillage des pommiers et son pouvoir d’attraction sur C. albicans explique sans doute les infestations de tachinides dans les chênes déjà endommagés par l’alimentation des insectes et l’absence de telles infestations dans les pommiers. [Traduit par la Rédaction]Keywords
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