The push-pull tactic for mitigation of mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) damage in lodgepole and whitebark pines

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1575-1586

  Gillette, Nancy E ^a   Mehmel, Constance J ^a   Mori, Sylvia R ^a   Webster, Jeffrey N ^b   Wood, David L ^c   Erbilgin, Nadir ^d   Owen, Donald R ^e  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Webster Forestry Consulting   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

green leaf volatiles; Pinus albicaulis; Pinus contorta; semiochemicals; verbenone

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; TERPENE; VERBENONE;

AGGREGATION PHEROMONE; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST DYNAMICS; MITIGATION; PEST DAMAGE; PHEROMONE TRAP; SEMIOCHEMICAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; HERBIVORY; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CALIFORNIA; HERBIVORY; INSECT CONTROL; PHEROMONES; PINUS; POPULATION DENSITY; TERPENES; WASHINGTON;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

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

EID: 84871585534     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11315     Document Type: Article

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