ETHANOL AS THE PRIMARY ATTRACTANT FOR THE AMBROSIA BEETLE TRYPODENDRON LINEATUM (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE)

1970 ◽  
Vol 102 (8) ◽  
pp. 985-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. Moeck
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Treatment ◽  
Ambrosia Beetle ◽  
Repellent Effect ◽  
Trypodendron Lineatum ◽  
Low Concentration ◽  
Laboratory Bioassays

AbstractMethanol, acetaldehyde, and ethanol have been identified in extracts of attractive wood and bark. The attractancy induced by anaerobic treatment in both sapwood and phloem of conifers and broadleaf trees was characterized by ethanol as the most concentrated component. In laboratory bioassays, ethanol was attractive at low concentration to both sexes of Trypodendron lineatum (Olivier). Methanol and acetaldehyde, at the concentrations found, apparently play no role in attraction. Monoterpenes had a repellent effect on T. lineatum.

LINEATIN ENANTIOMER PREFERENCE, FLIGHT PERIODS, AND EFFECT OF PHEROMONE CONCENTRATION AND TRAP LENGTH ON THREE SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF TRYPODENDRON (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE)

2000 ◽  
Vol 132 (6) ◽  
pp. 877-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.S. Lindgren ◽  
S.E.R. Hoover ◽  
A.M. MacIsaac ◽  
C.I. Keeling ◽  
K.N. Slessor
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Reproductive Isolation ◽  
Release Rate ◽  
Sympatric Species ◽  
Ambrosia Beetle ◽  
Flight Period ◽  
Trypodendron Lineatum ◽  
Temporal Separation ◽  
Baited Traps ◽  
Pheromone Concentration

AbstractThe effects of lineatin enantiomer ratios, lineatin release rate, and trap length on catches and the flight periods of three sympatric species of Trypodendron Stephens were investigated in field bioassays using multiple-funnel traps. The ambrosia beetle, Trypodendron betulae Swaine, was caught in similar numbers in baited traps and blank control traps, showing that this species does not respond to lineatin. Our results confirmed that Trypodendron lineatum (Olivier) is attracted only to (+)-lineatin. Trypodendron rufitarsus (Kirby) and Trypodendron retusum (LeConte) were shown to utilize lineatin and like T. lineatum were caught only when (+)-lineatin was present. These results indicate that lineatin does not govern reproductive isolation among these three species. There was no effect by (+)-lineatin release rate within the range tested. The flight of T. rufitarsus commenced earlier and ceased before the peak of the T. lineatum flight, suggesting that temporal separation may be an important component of reproductive isolation between these two species. The flight period of T. retusum was similar to that of T. lineatum. Host odours may aid in reproductive isolation of these two species. Enantiomer blend did not significantly affect sex ratio in any species; however, sex ratio differed among species, indicating that different species responded differently to the traps or that natural sex ratios differ. Catches of T. rufitarsus and T. retusum increased with trap length when pheromone release per trap was held constant and when release was held constant relative to trap length. Trap length and release rate did not affect sex ratio.

Anaerobic treatment of low concentration waste water in an inverse fluidized bed reactor

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Castilla ◽  
M. Meraz ◽  
O. Monroy ◽  
A. Noyola
Keyword(s):  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Removal Efficiency ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Biomass Concentration ◽  
Fluidized Bed Reactor ◽  
Anaerobic Treatment ◽  
Low Concentration ◽  
Inverse Fluidized Bed

Low concentration synthetic and municipal wastewaters were treated at HRT as short as 3 and 0.6 h respectively in an anaerobic inverse fluidized bed. Both bioreactors showed gas hold up due to the liquid downflow pattern of the prototype. The bioreactor operated at 3 h had a removal efficiency of 83%, specific activity of 4.5 kg CODremoved/kg IVS (d and the gas hold up varied from 23 to 55%. The reactor treating municipal wastewater had a removal efficiency of 44% when operating at 0.6 h, the specific activity was 4.2 kg CODremoved/kg IVS (d and no biogas was detected apparently because an important fraction was dissolved in the liquid phase. The biomass concentration was 13.8 and 1.1 kg IVS/m3 for synthetic and municipal wastewater and the SEM microphotographs showed a bacterial diversity for the first run and only cocci cells for the second run. The system does not remove suspended solids, so a polishing postreatment to improve water quality has to be implemented.

Pheromone mask produced by male Trypodendron lineatum (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Borden
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Reaction ◽  
Trypodendron Lineatum ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Laboratory Bioassays

The response of male Trypodendron lineatum in laboratory bioassays was inhibited if gut extract from males was added to an attractive extract of guts from single females. Emergent, postdiapause males, and paired males removed from logs 2 and 7 weeks after attack possessed the mask. Emergent brood males did not. The pheromone mask was still apparent when separate wicks were used for male and female gut extracts, indicating that the mask is olfactory and does not result from a chemical reaction. Gut extract from paired females removed from logs 2 weeks after attack was attractive, indicating that attraction to females in the host would persist were they not accompanied by mask-producing males.

Flight and Attack of the Ambrosia Beetle, Trypodendron lineatum (Oliv.) in Relation to Felling Date of Logs

1965 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. D. A. Dyer ◽  
J. A. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Douglas Fir ◽  
Ambrosia Beetle ◽  
Considerable Variability ◽  
Trypodendron Lineatum ◽  
Brood Rearing

AbstractLog preference of the ambrosia beetle, Trypodendron lineatum (Oliv.) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), was studied by flight traps, attack density counts, and forced attacks, on 200 Douglas fir felled over a ten-month period. During heavy spring flights in late May, the beetles attacked logs from the August through January fellings, but not those cut February through May. At the end of the first brood-rearing period, parts of logs protected by plastic sheeting from earlier flights were attacked in this same pattern. Beetles confined on logs at different times attacked in essentially the same way as free beetles. It is concluded that felling date greatly influences subsequent attack. However, there was considerable variability in attack within groups of trees cut the same dates. Furthermore, attack on very short (1- and 3-foot) sections from the February fellings, when the corresponding logs were unattractive, showed that a factor other than time of felling also influenced log attractiveness. Some information was secured on flight and attack of other scolytid beetles in relation to felling date of logs.

The aligning effect of light flicker on phototaxis of the ambrosia beetle Trypodendron lineatum (Olivier)

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 602-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Graham ◽  
Isabelle A. Moeck
Keyword(s):  
Light Intensity ◽  
Ambrosia Beetle ◽  
Trypodendron Lineatum ◽  
Chemical Attractants ◽  
Light Flicker ◽  
Effect Of Light

A light which was flickered at approximately 5 cycles per second provoked a more direct guided response in the ambrosia beetle Trypodendron lineatum (Olivier) than did a steady source of the same intensity. Among the principal implications are those which concern the use of the beetles in bioassay of chemical attractants in which light is used as an opposing stimulus. The light intensity should be at least stabilized, and preferably flickered at an appropriate frequency.

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