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CITRONELLOL ATTRACTS MALE PRENOLEPIS IMPARIS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. A. Leslie  and
D. L. Overhulser
C. A. Leslie
Affiliation:
Western Forestry Research Center, Weyerhaeuser Co., Centralia, Washington 98531
D. L. Overhulser
Affiliation:
Western Forestry Research Center, Weyerhaeuser Co., Centralia, Washington 98531
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During studies of the attractiveness of essential oils to insects associated with Douglas-fir cones, traps baited with citronellol attracted male Prenolepis imparis (Say), the small honey ant. Citronellol was previously reported as present in the mandibular glands of worker and male ants (Law et al. 1965; Blum et al. 1968).

The small honey ant is a ground nesting species frequently encountered in woodlands and noted for tending plant-sucking insects. Behavior of colonies has not been intensively studied, but it is known that alate ants leave the colony in March and April for a nuptial flight (Smith 1965).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 114 , Issue 12 , December 1982 , pp. 1197 - 1198
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1982

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