Individual-tree tests of verbenone flakes, verbenone pouches, and green-leaf volatiles to protect lodgepole pines from mountain pine beetle attack

Sandra Kegley; Ken Gibson; Nancy E. Gillette; Jeff Webster; Lee Pederson; Silvia Mori

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Individual-tree tests of verbenone flakes, verbenone pouches, and green-leaf volatiles to protect lodgepole pines from mountain pine beetle attack

Formally Refereed

Authors:

Sandra Kegley, Ken Gibson, Nancy E. Gillette, Jeff Webster, Lee Pederson, Silvia Mori

Year:

2010

Type:

Other

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

Numbered Report 10-02. Coeur d’Alene, ID: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region, Forest health Protection. 12 p

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Abstract

We have long known that the bark beetle-produced pheromone, verbenone (trimethyl-bicyclo-heptenone), can limit damage to pines by scolytid bark beetles (Clarke et al. 1999, Skillen et al. 1997, Syracuse Environmental Research Associates, Inc. 2000). It has also been shown that in some cases the addition of ―green leaf volatiles‖ (GLVs) can increase the efficacy of verbenone in protecting host trees (Wilson et al. 1996; Borden et al. 2003; Huber et al. 2003; Kegley and Gibson 2009).

Citation

Kegley, Sandra; Gibson, Ken; Gillette, Nancy; Webster, Jeff; Pederson, Lee; Mori, Silvia. 2010. Individual-tree tests of verbenone flakes, verbenone pouches, and green-leaf volatiles to protect lodgepole pines from mountain pine beetle attack. Numbered Report 10-02. Coeur d’Alene, ID: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region, Forest health Protection. 12 p