What is it about?
A four component blend of sex pheromone components was identified and tested in traps.
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Why is it important?
This insect is a major pest of macadamia nuts, feijoas and guavas.
Perspectives
It is hard to control pests in this family (Carposinidae) and we later showed that mating disruption could work using a pheromone analogue, from a Japanese species called peach fruit moth.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: (Z)-7-Tricosene and Monounsaturated Ketones as Sex Pheromone Components of the Australian Guava Moth Coscinoptycha improbana: Identification, Field Trapping, and Phenology, Journal of Chemical Ecology, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-006-9361-z.
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