Sex Pheromone of the Winter Moth, a Geometrid with Unusually Low Temperature Precopulatory Responses
- 13 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 217 (4560), 657-659
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.217.4560.657
Abstract
The sex pheromone for the winter moth, Operophtera brumata (L.), has been identified as the novel compound (Z,Z,Z)-1,3,6,9-nonadecatetraene. The male moths respond to the pheromone at low temperatures (4° to 15°C) and exhibit an upper response limit that coincides with the lower response limit for other reported moth sex pheromone systems. The pheromone attracted two other geometrid species, O. bruceata (Bruce spanworm) and O. occidentalis.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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