Oriental beetle

Peng G. and Leal W. S. (2001) Identification and cloning of a pheromone-binding protein from the Oriental beetle, Exomala orientalis J. Chem. Ecol. 27, 2183-2192. 

Oriental beetle (Anomala oriental is) Bacillus popilliae... 

The long range orientation of most other Insects In response to chemical attractants Is not nearly as clear. The olfactory orientation of the Colorado potato beetle has been studied In considerable detail by Vlsser and coworkers. 

Figure 6. Long-range orientation responses of female Colorado beetles to wind and to wind plus potato odor 687 individuals were tested. Left tracks divided into five categories—1 and 2, straight and indirectly downwind 3, indifferent 4 and 5, indirectly and straight upwind. Right time periods required to reach upwind or downwind edge (14).

Pheromone Disruption and Inhibitors. Pheromones play an important role in the landing and attack behavior of bark beetles (9, 11, 12). Attractants orient flying beetles to a common host tree in high numbers over a relatively short time period. Two techniques have been recently developed to take advantage of the southern pine beetle response to pheromones. 

Fukaya, M., Yasui, H., Yasuda, T., Akino, T. and Wakamura, S. (2005). Female orientation to the male in the white-spotted longicom beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca (Thomson) (Coleoptera Cerambycidae) by visual and olfactory cues. Appl. 

The most intensive effort to use pheromones in insect management has been in Australia, where an attract-and-kill strategy has been developed for protecting stone fruit crops. Historically, the Oriental fruit moth, Grapholita molesta Busck, was the major stone fruit pest, and heavy insecticide applications kept both this moth and, coincidentally, the Carpophilus beetles at acceptable levels. However, the widespread adoption of pheromone-based mating disruption for G. molesta control released the Carpophilus beetles from insecticide pressure, and these beetles, Ca. davidsoni in particular, became the dominant stone fruit pests (James et al., 1994). Late applications of broad-spectrum insecticides often... 

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