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Do Mated Tribolium confusum Adults Respond
to Blends of Odors?
Anna Wenda-Piesik1, Dariusz Piesik2, Bogusław Buszewski3
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1UTP University of Science and Technology, Department of Plant Growth Principles and Experimental Methodology,
85-225 Bydgoszcz, 20 Kordeckiego St., Poland
2UTP University of Science and Technology, Department of Entomology and Molecular Phytopathology,
85-225 Bydgoszcz, 20 Kordeckiego St., Poland
3Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Chemistry, Chair of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics,
87-100 Toruń, 7 Gagarina St., Poland
Submission date: 2016-04-11
Final revision date: 2016-07-19
Acceptance date: 2016-07-19
Online publication date: 2017-01-31
Publication date: 2017-01-31
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2017;26(1):447-452
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In this paper we report the behavioral responses of mated Tribolium confusum to blends of volatiles
using a Y-tube olfactometer. Four doses of volatiles (1 ng.min-1, 10 ng.min-1, 100 ng.min-1, and 1,000 ng.min-1
in 50 μl of hexane applied on filter paper) were tested. A Y-tube experiment revealed that both mated females
and males of Tribolium confusum were attracted to blends 4 and 5 at concentrations of 100 ng.min-1 and
10 ng.min-1, respectively. Moreover, mated females of tested insects were also attracted to blends 1 and 5.
Yet the weevil females and males were repelled by the highest concentrations (1,000 ng·min-1) for all tested
blends. Additionally, a 100 ng·min-1 concentration also repelled both sexes in blends 2, 3, 5, and 6.