Eupoecilia ambiguella

The most effective application technique for lepidopteran species is to permeate the atmosphere with synthetic pheromone, and to thereby prevent olfactory communication and mate finding. The mating disruption technique has been successfully applied in Europe to three lepidopteran insects from horticultural crops codling moth Cydia pomonella, and the grape berry moths Eupoecilia ambiguella and Lobesia botrana [132, 133]. 

The pheromones of the vine moths (Eupoecilia ambiguella and Lobesia botrana) are typical for the sex attractants used by the large families of tortrix moths (Tortricidae) and owlet moths (Noctuidae) (Fig. 8.78). 

The configuration of the double bond can have a profound effect on reception by the male insect. Sometimes a wrong isomer can completely inhibit the response to a pheromone. For example, the moth Eupoecilia ambiguella produces (Z)-9-dodecenyl acetate. Males are inhibited by as... 

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