A novel attractant for Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens, from fermented host fruit.
1990
Robacker D.C. | Tarshis Moreno A.M. | Garcia J.A. | Flath R.A.
Chemicals from fermented chapote fruit were identified arid evaluated as attractants for hungry adult Mexican fruit flies in laboratory and greenhouse bioassays. Twenty eight chemicals identified from an attractive gas-chromatography fraction were as attractive as a chapote volatiles extract (CV) when mixed in the same amounts found in CV. Sixteen of the chemicals were slightly attractive to flies when tested individually. A mixture containing 15 of the chemicals by design and the 16th as an impurity in arbitrary concentrations. was at least as attractive as the original CV. In a series of experiments, the number of chemicals was reduced to three by elimination of unnecessary components. The three-component mixture retained the attractiveness of the 15-component mixture. The three chemicals were 1,8-cineole, ethyl hexanoate, and hexanol (CEH). Attractiveness of the three chemical mixture was equal to the sum of the attractiveness of the three individual components, suggesting that each chemical binds to a different receptor type that independently elicits partial attraction behavior. Optimal ratios were 10:1:1 of the three chemicals, respectively. Optimal test quantities ranged between 0.4-4 microgram of 1.8-cineole and 40-400 ng each of ethyl hexanoate and hexanol applied to filter paper in the laboratory bioassays. A neat 10:1:1 mixture of the chemicals was 1.8 times more attractive than aqueous solutions of Torula dried yeast and borax to started 2-day-old flies when the lures were tested in competing McPhail traps in a large greenhouse cage.
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