Insect Pheromones and their Use in Pest Management

✍ Scribed by P. E. Howse, I. D. R. Stevens, Chairman O. T. Jones (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There is now a considerable literature on chemical ecology, which had its beginnings in the study of insect pheromones. This beginning was possible only by combining the disciplines and techniques of biology and chemistry. For a biologist, it is difficult to understand the time­ frames of analytical and synthetic chemistry. A compound may take days to characterize and be available in minutes from a bottle on the shelf, or it may take years to characterize and synthesize. Chemists have a similar frustration: after an intense programme of work, the insect in question may not emerge for many months. study are, however, The rewards of integrated interdisciplinary considerable, because they allow us to understand many facets of insect behaviour and consequently to control that behaviour for our own ends. In this book, we have set out to explain the results of research from chemical and biological perspectives, and see how the knowledge gained has led to novel techniques that can be used in insect pest management and insect control. An important part of understanding insect chemical ecology involves the understanding not only of new concepts but of the vocabularies used by scientists specializing in different fields. It will be clear that the three sections of this book have been written by three different people: an insect behaviourist, an organic chemist and a biologist in industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Insect semiochemicals and communication....Pages 3-37
The role of pheromones in insect behaviour and ecology....Pages 38-68
Factors controlling responses of insects to pheromones....Pages 69-104
Bioassay methods....Pages 105-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Chemical structures and diversity of pheromones....Pages 135-179
Isolation and structure determination....Pages 180-225
Synthesis of pheromones....Pages 226-245
Structure and species specificity....Pages 246-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Pest monitoring....Pages 263-279
Mass trapping....Pages 280-299
Lure and kill....Pages 300-313
Mating disruption....Pages 314-344
Other uses of semiochemicals....Pages 345-355
Back Matter....Pages 357-369

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary Biology; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Plant Pathology; Biochemistry, general