The 2005 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition
December 15-18, 2005
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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Saturday, December 17, 2005
D0357

Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, attraction to traps baited with induced plant volatiles

Therese M. Poland, tpoland@fs.fed.us1, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, rodri337@msu.edu2, Peter De Groot, pdegroot@nrcan.gc.ca3, and Deborah G. McCullough, mccullo6@msu.edu2. (1) USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, 1407 S. Harrison Rd, East Lansing, MI, (2) Michigan State University, Department of Entomology, 243 Natural Sciences Building, East Lansing, MI, (3) Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, 1219 Queen St. East, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada

Improved survey tools are essential for accurately delimiting the infestation of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), and for detecting new infestations. Current survey methods including visual surveys for damage, girdled trap trees, and trunk dissections are less than ideal because newly infested trees typically do not display external symptoms and trap trees and trunk dissections are destructive and labor intensive. Previous studies suggest that A. planipennis is attracted to the color purple, to blends of host volatiles, and to girdled ash trees. We evaluated attraction of A. planipennis to purple panel traps baited with various combinations of volatiles identified from ash seedlings that had been induced by the stress elicitor methyl jasmonate.


Species 1: Coleoptera Buprestidae Agrilus planipennis (Emerald ash borer)
Keywords: attraction, trap