Behavioural responses of the vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, to semiochemicals from conspecifics, Otiorhynchus salicicola, and host plants

R.W.H.M. van Tol, J.H. Visser, M.W. Sabelis

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    The vine weevil Otiorhynchus sulcatus is a parthenogenetic reproducing species which forages for suitable host plants at night, but is found congregated in dark places during the day. Frass of this weevil species is suspected to contain attractive compounds that are host-plant related. Using a still-air olfactometer, we tested adult vine weevils at night for their behavioural response to odours from conspecifics, feeding on a mixture of spindle tree (Euonymus fortunei) and yew (Taxus baccata), and to a sexually reproducing related species (Otiorhynchus salicicola), feeding on a mixture of ivy (Hedera helix) and cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus). Their attraction to conspecifics and O. salicicola appeared to be related to frass production. Freshly collected frass from O. sulcatus and from O. salicicola males and females was attractive. Prunus laurocerasus and H. helix have not been observed to be hosts of the vine weevil in the field. However, our tests showed that the vine weevil was attracted to mechanically damaged leaves of both plant species, whereas undamaged leaves were not attractive. Only undamaged young unfolding leaves of H. helix were also attractive. The attraction to odours from mechanically damaged host and non-host plants suggested the involvement of compounds that are commonly found in many plant species. The involvement of plant compounds and/or aggregation pheromones in attraction to frass of the vine weevil and frass of the related weevil species O. salicicola is discussed
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)145-150
    JournalEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
    Volume110
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2004

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    Otiorhynchus
    Otiorhynchus sulcatus
    semiochemical
    semiochemicals
    vine
    behavioral response
    Curculionidae
    vines
    frass
    host plant
    host plants
    Prunus laurocerasus
    Hedera helix
    odor
    aggregation pheromone
    Euonymus fortunei
    odors
    Taxus baccata
    leaves
    aggregation pheromones

    Keywords

    • aggregation pheromone
    • coleoptera-scolytidae
    • beetle coleoptera
    • trans-verbenol
    • curculionidae
    • volatiles
    • identification
    • odors
    • frass

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    van Tol, R.W.H.M. ; Visser, J.H. ; Sabelis, M.W. / Behavioural responses of the vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, to semiochemicals from conspecifics, Otiorhynchus salicicola, and host plants. In: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 2004 ; Vol. 110, No. 2. pp. 145-150.
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    van Tol, RWHM, Visser, JH & Sabelis, MW 2004, 'Behavioural responses of the vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, to semiochemicals from conspecifics, Otiorhynchus salicicola, and host plants' Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, vol. 110, no. 2, pp. 145-150. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00127.x

    Behavioural responses of the vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, to semiochemicals from conspecifics, Otiorhynchus salicicola, and host plants. / van Tol, R.W.H.M.; Visser, J.H.; Sabelis, M.W.

    In: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Vol. 110, No. 2, 2004, p. 145-150.

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