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Science 28 October 1966:
Vol. 154. no. 3748, pp. 509 - 510
DOI: 10.1126/science.154.3748.509
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Sex Attractants in Frass Produced by Male Ips confusus in Ponderosa Pine

Robert M. Silverstein 1, J. Otto Rodin 1, and David L. Wood 2

1 Life Sciences Division, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
2 Department of Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley

The attractant response of Ips confusus to frass produced by male beetles boring in ponderosa pine can be reproduced, in a laboratory bioassay, by a combination of compound I with either compound II or compound III, all isolated from frass. The same response by both sexes was elicited by mixtures of synthesized compounds. Compound I is (—)-2-methyl-6- methylene7-octen-4-ol; compound II, (+)-cis- verbenol; and compound III, (+)-2-methyl-6-methylene-2,7-octadien-4-ol.


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