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The lacewing Chrysopa cognata, one of the principal predators of aphids in Korea, was tested for responses to the aphid sex pheromone components (4aS,7S,7aR)-nepetalactone and (1R,4aS,7S,7aR)-nepetalactol and the aphid alarm pheromone (E)-β-farnesene. Electroantennogram responses were obtained to the sex pheromone components but not to (E)-β-farnesene. The sex pheromone components were attractive in a Y-tube olfactometer assay and in field trials with water traps, but no attraction was observed to (E)-β-farnesene.
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Boo, K.S., Chung, I.B., Han, K.S. et al. Response of The Lacewing Chrysopa cognata to Pheromones of its Aphid Prey. J Chem Ecol 24, 631–643 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022386001722
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