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Science 14 July 1972:
Vol. 177. no. 4044, pp. 177 - 178
DOI: 10.1126/science.177.4044.177
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Sex Pheromone of the Codling Moth: Structure and Synthesis

Leslie M. McDonough 1, Donald A. George 1, B. A. Butt 1, John M. Ruth 2, and Kenneth R. Hill 2

1 Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, Yakima, Washington 98902
2 Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705

The structure of a sex pheromone of the codling moth. Laspeyresia pomonella (L.), has been determined by spectrometric and chemical degradative techniques and by synthesis to be (2Z, 6E)-7-methyl-3-propyl-2,6-decadien-1-ol. In field cage tests the synthesized sex pheromone was as attractive as the natural, but neither was as attractive as ten virgin females per trap.


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Sex Pheromones: (E,E)-8,10-Dodecadien-1-ol in the Codling Moth.
M. Beroza, B. A. Bierl, and H. R. Moffitt (1974)
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