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Composition and method for attraction of emerald ash borer agrilus planipennis fairmaire (coleoptera: buprestidae)

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Inactive Publication Date: 2013-01-31
NAT RES COUNCIL OF CANADA
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[0009]This invention provides the first behavioral evidence for a volatile pheromone of A. planipennis in combination with host foliar volatiles in association with a trap of a color in t

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Early detection of A. planipennis infestations has proven difficult because visual signs and symptoms, such as D-shape exit holes, epicormic shoots, bark deformities, and thinning crowns, usually appear only on heavily infested trees a y

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[0064, conducted in Ontario in 2009, was designed to test the attractiveness of (3E)- vs. (3Z)-lactone, alone and in combination with Phoebe oil, based on results from 2008. Purple prism traps were baited with the following lure treatments: (3Z)-lactone; (3E)-lactone; Phoebe oil; (3Z)-lactone+Phoebe oil; (3E)-lactone+Phoebe oil; and unbaited controls. As in 2008, release rate of phoebe oil was ca. 50 mg / d at 20° C. The lactone lure consisted of a 1.5 ml PCR tube containing 50 mg of either (3E)- or (3Z)-lactone; a pipe cleaner wick was placed into the vial through a 1.0 mm hole with 2.0 mm of the wick protruding through the top of the tube (release rate=˜0.5 mg / d at 20° C. Traps were in the field from 2 Jun.-4 Aug. 2009, with 7 blocks at one site (Site B: Union Gas site) and 8 blocks at the other (Site C: Anika Mills site). Lures were not changed during the experiment.

[0065]Experiment 3, conducted in 2010, was designed to test the effect of the single green leaf volatile, (3Z)-hexeno...

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The invention disclosed relates to a novel composition and use thereof, for the attraction and detection of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire. The composition comprises (3Z)-dodecen-12-olide and ash foliar or cortical volatiles (green leaf volatiles) associated with a prism trap of a color in the green range of the visible light spectrum. A significant increase in the capture of male A. planipennis is achieved when traps were deployed in the upper tree canopy. This invention is the first demonstration of increased attraction with a combination of a pheromone and a green leaf volatile in a Buprestid species.

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[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional patent application 61 / 513,054 filed Jul. 29, 2011.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is an invasive Palearctic species that has killed millions of ash trees (Fraxinus spp. L.) (Oleaceae) in the USA and Canada (Cappaert et al. 2005; Poland and McCullough 2006). Although initially detected near Detroit, Mich. in 2002, there is evidence that populations of this invasive species had been present in Michigan, USA and Ontario, Canada since the mid-1990s (Seigert et al. 2007). Since then, it has spread rapidly and has been detected in 15 states and two provinces, Ontario and Quebec, in Canada (EAB 2010). Movement of infested firewood and nursery stock has exacerbated its spread and large scale devastation of ash trees is predicted (Marchant 2006). Early detection of A. planipennis infestations has proven difficult because visual signs and symptoms, suc...

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IPC IPC(8): A01N43/22A01P19/00
CPCA01N43/22A01N31/02
Inventor SILK, PETER J.MAGEE, DAVIDRYALL, KRISTAMAYO, PETER
Owner NAT RES COUNCIL OF CANADA