Miklós Tóth1, István Szarukán2, Antal Nagy2, Lorenzo Furlan3, Isadora Benvegnù4, Magda Rak Cizej5, Tamás Ábri2, Tamás Kéki2, Szilvia Körösi2, Attila Pogonyi2, Teodora Toshova6, Dimitar Velchev7, Daniela Atanasova8, Alican Kurtulus9, Bora Mehmet Kaydan9, Alessio Signori4. 1. Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. 2. Institute of Plant Protection, Univesity of Debrecen, Hungary. 3. Veneto Agricoltura - Agenzia veneta per l'innovazione nel settore primario, Settore Ricerca Agraria, Legnaro, Italy. 4. Independent researcher. 5. Slovenian Institute of Hop Research and Brewing, Žalec, Slovenia. 6. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria. 7. Maize Research Institute, Knezha, Bulgaria. 8. Agricultural University, Faculty of Plant Protection and Agroecology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 9. Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana, Turkey.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Phenylacetaldehyde is a flower volatile and attractant for among others the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis. The addition of 4-methoxyphenethyl alcohol has recently been reported to increase O. nubilalis catches four to five times, yielding a bisexual lure for the species. RESULTS: The bisexual lure significantly outperformed synthetic pheromone lures of O. nubilalis at 11 out of 13 experiments conducted in Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia and Turkey. CONCLUSION: The bisexual lure will provide growers with a new and efficient method for detection and monitoring of O. nubilalis.
BACKGROUND:Phenylacetaldehyde is a flower volatile and attractant for among others the European corn borerOstrinia nubilalis. The addition of 4-methoxyphenethyl alcohol has recently been reported to increase O. nubilalis catches four to five times, yielding a bisexual lure for the species. RESULTS: The bisexual lure significantly outperformed synthetic pheromone lures of O. nubilalis at 11 out of 13 experiments conducted in Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia and Turkey. CONCLUSION: The bisexual lure will provide growers with a new and efficient method for detection and monitoring of O. nubilalis.