• Biology
• Published in CHEMOECOLOGY 1993
• DOI:10.1007/BF01256549

Host-plant green-leaf volatiles synergize the synthetic sex pheromones of the corn earworm and codling moth (Lepidoptera)

@article{Light1993HostplantGV,
  title={Host-plant green-leaf volatiles synergize the synthetic sex pheromones of the corn earworm and codling moth (Lepidoptera)},
  author={Douglas M. Light and Robert A. Flath and Ronald G. Buttery and Frank G. Zalom and Richard E. Rice and Joseph Clifton Dickens and Eric B. Jang},
  journal={CHEMOECOLOGY},
  year={1993},
  volume={4},
  pages={145-152}
}

• Douglas M. Light, Robert A. Flath, +4 authors Eric B. Jang

SummaryThe capture of adult male moths in female sex pheromone traps of two key agricultural pests, the corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea) and the codling moth (Cydia pomonella), is enhanced or synergized by a certain group of host-plant volatiles, the “green-leaf volatiles” (GLVs). Since female adults of both species call and release their sex pheromones while perched upon the leaves of their host-plants, the volatile constituents from the leaves of a number of host-plants were compared. Sex… CONTINUE READING

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