Sex Attractant of Cabbage Looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hubner)
Abstract
When virgin male cabbage loopers were exposed to filter-paper strips containing an extract from female abdomens, they exhibited a response lasting from 2 to 5 minutes. Gases of a component (or components) of these extracts emanating from a chromatography column attracted the males and then evoked the same response. The attractant is fairly volatile and has a relatively low molecular weight.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- September 1963
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.141.3584.902
- Bibcode:
- 1963Sci...141..902I