Verbenone-releasing flakes protect individual Pinus contorta trees from attack by Dendroctonus ponderosae and Dendroctonus valens (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-251

  Gillette, Nancy E ^a   Stein, John D ^a   Owen, Donald R ^b   Webster, Jeffrey N ^c   Fiddler, Gary O ^a   Mori, Sylvia R ^a   Wood, David L ^d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection   (United States)

^c TOTAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

4,6,6 trimethylbicyclo(3.1)hept 3 en 2 one; Individual tree protection; Lodgepole pine; Mountain pine beetle; Pheromones; Pinaceae; Red turpentine beetle; Scolytidae; Scolytinae; Semiochemicals

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; DENDROCTONUS VALENS; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 33746815326     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2006.00303.x     Document Type: Article

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