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1 October 2006 Grandlure Dosage and Attraction of Boll Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
A. T. Showler, D. Robacker, E. Salgado
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Abstract

The effects of grandlure dosage on of boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), attraction were assessed. Traps collected more boll weevils under field and laboratory conditions as the amount of grandlure in laminated plastic strips was increased from 0 to 10, 30, and 60 mg. Spreading the point source of the lure by cutting the strip into quarters and positioning each quarter on separate corners of the large capacity trap to create an expanded source for the pheromone plume, however, resulted in fewer trap captures than traps with quartered lures all positioned on a single corner. The large capacity trap with the quartered lure on one corner also caught more weevils than the traps with an intact lure fastened to one corner. Although aging lure strips for three weeks reduced emissions of the four pheromone components and their attractiveness to boll weevils, cutting the aged lure into quarters resulted in greater emissions and attraction than lures that were aged intact or as quarters. Some pheromone components volatilized faster than others, resulting in time-related changes in blend ratios, but the underlying factor in boll weevil attraction to grandlure strips was dosage, the amount of volatilized pheromone available for interacting with an adult boll weevil.

A. T. Showler, D. Robacker, and E. Salgado "Grandlure Dosage and Attraction of Boll Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 99(5), 1675-1681, (1 October 2006). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493-99.5.1675
Received: 17 January 2006; Accepted: 1 May 2006; Published: 1 October 2006
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KEYWORDS
Anthonomus grandis
boll weevil
grandlure
pheromone
trapping
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