The sugarcane beetle, Euetheola humilis (Burmeister) was first documented as a novel pest of sweetpotato in 2001 in Louisiana. Initial field observations and reports from sweetpotato growers indicated severe damage in some fields compared to adjacent fields with minimal to no damage by the beetle. Entomological literature is replete with reports of volatile compounds produced by plants that mediate plant/insect interactions. Sweetpotato plant volatiles have been identified that are attractive to other pests of sweetpotato. Experiments were conducted in 2005 to define the aggregation behavior of the sugarcane beetle, using a classical Y-tube olfactometer and other bioassay arenas. Results indicate that beetles are significantly more attracted (P<0.05) to host plant volatiles from both insect damaged and mechanically damaged sweetpotatoes than to intact sweetpotatoes and that sweetpotato cultivars may be differentially attractive to sugarcane beetles.