Red banded leaf roller

Roelofs, W.L., Glass, E.H., Tette, J., and Comeau, A. 1970. Sex pheromone trapping for red-banded leaf roller control Theoretical and actual. J. Econ. Entomol. 63, 1162-1167. 

There is hope that insect sex lures can be used to disrupt the mating pattern of insects and thereby control insect population. This approach to pest control has important advantages over conventional insecticides in that the chemical lures are specific for a particular species also they are effective in remarkably low concentrations and are relatively nontoxic. There are problems, however, not the least of which is the isolation and identification of the sex attractant that is produced by the insects only in minute quantities. Also, synergistic effects are known to operate in several insect species such that not one but several pheromones act in concert to attract the opposite sex. Two notable pests, the European corn borer and the red-banded leaf roller, both use cis-11-tetradecenyl ethanoate, 32, as the primary sex attractant, but the pure cis isomer is ineffective unless a small amount of trans isomer also is present. The optimum amount appears to be between 4% and 7% of the trans isomer. 

Ac Synthetic insect pheromone for red-banded leaf roller. [a]25 h-70.7 (c, 3.18 in CHCI3). 

Ac [33951-95-0]. Insect attractant for male red-banded leaf roller moths (Argyrotaenia velutinarta). Bpoos 101 . 

In related work Chapman et al. (219) defined the conformation of Z-11-tetradecenyl acetate (49), the sex attractant of the European corn borer and the red banded leaf roller, in the pheromone chemore-ceptor system, of these two species. 

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