Sawtoothed grain beetle

Collins, PJ. 1985. Resistance to grain protectants in field populations of the sawtoothed grain beetle in southern Queensland. Austral. Jour. Exp. Agric. 25 683-686. 

Mowery, S.V., Mullen, M.A., Campbell, J.F., and Broce, A.B. 2002. Mechanisms underlying sawtoothed grain beetle (Oryzaephilus surinamensis [L.]) (Coleoptera Silvanidae) infestation of consumer food packaging materials. J. Econ. Entomol. 95, 1333-1336. 

White P. R., Chambers J., Walter C. M., Wilkins J. P. G. and Millar J. G. (1989) Sawtoothed grain beetle Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.) (Coleoptera, Silvanidae) collection, identification, and bioassay of attractive volatiles from beetles and oats. J. Chem. Ecol. 15, 999-1013. 

Some tests have been begun with the raisin and dried fig volatiles In their ability to attract the Indian meal moth (Plodla Interpunctella) and sawtoothed grain beetle (Oryzaephllus surlnamensls) but no reportable results have been obtained yet. 

Several aggregation pheromones are metabolically altered fatty acids, or mixtures of these compounds. The most active attractants for the sawtoothed grain beetle, Orzyaephi-lus surinamensis, from oats were (2 )-nonenal and (2E,4E) nonadienal (Mikolajczak et al., 1984). The most abundant compound from a variety of food-related resources with pheromonal activity for males of the driedfruit beetle, Carpophilus hemipterus (Coleoptera Nitidulidae), was (2 ,4 ,6 , 8 )-3,5,7-trimethyl-2,4,6,8-decatetraene (Bartelt et al, 1990). 

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