Open AccessAre synthetic pheromone captures predictive of parasitoid densities as a kairomonal attracted tool?
Author(s) -
M. H. Bayoumy,
Mehmet Bora Kydan,
F. Kozär
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of entomological and acarological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2279-7084
pISSN - 2038-324X
DOI - 10.4081/jear.2011.23
Subject(s) - diaspididae , aphelinidae , parasitoid , biology , sex pheromone , hymenoptera , pheromone , orchard , zoology , ecology , botany , pest analysis , homoptera
Abundance of White Peach scale (WPS), Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) and San José scale (SJS), Diaspidiotus perniciosus (Comstock) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) adult males and their attracted parasitoids were monitored using pheromone and sticky tape traps in an orchard of Budapest, Hungary, during 2010. In this study, we tried answer on the question raised whether synthetic commercial pheromones of WSP or SJS could work as a kairomonal stimulant and positively attract higher numbers of the specialized parasitoids. Although pheromone traps attracted a wide range of parasitoid species, most of them were accidentally. However, the parasitoid Thomsonisca amathus (Walker) (Hymenoptera: E ncyrtidae) and the parasitoid Encarsia perniciosi (Tower) (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) significantly respond to the sex pheromones of WPS and SJS, respectively, suggesting that they may play an important role in host location