Old house borer

Noldt U., Fettkother R. and Dettner K. (1995) Structure of the sex pheromone-producing prothoracic glands of the male old house borer, Hylotrupes bajulus (L.) (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). Int. J. Insect Morphol. Embrol. 24, 223-234. 

Coleoptera, Cerambycidae [Hyalotrupes bajulus (L.), old house borer"]... 

Old House Borers. Old house borer Hylotrupes bajulus) is prevalent in Northern Europe and is becoming common in the United States. The old... 

Figure 9. Section of white pine from an 18th-century church, degraded by Hylotrupes bajulus (old house borer). Note chamber concentration and random...

Occurrence In numerous essential oils cymen-2-ol especially in origanum (oregano) oil (Coridothymus capitatus, Lamiaceae) up to 80%, in savory and thyme oil up to 70% cymen-3-ol especially in essential oil of seeds of Orthodon angustifolium (Lamiaceae) up to 72% cymen-8-ol from the frass of the old house borer beetle Hylotrupes bajulus (Cerambycidae). Use Carvacrol as disinfectant and solvent thymol as stabilizer (0.01%) of halothanes and trichloroethene. Mixtures of thymol with methyl IV-methylanthranilate in appropriate ratios have a typical mandarin odor. lit Tetrahedron Lett. 1975, 3585. Helv. Chim. Acta 46, 1480(1963). 

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