Variation in host fruit volatiles attractive to apple maggot fly,Rhagoletis pomonella

S A Carle; A L Averill; G S Rule; W H Reissig; W L Roelofs

doi:10.1007/BF01020161

Variation in host fruit volatiles attractive to apple maggot fly,Rhagoletis pomonella

J Chem Ecol. 1987 Apr;13(4):795-805. doi: 10.1007/BF01020161.

Authors

S A Carle¹, A L Averill, G S Rule, W H Reissig, W L Roelofs

Affiliation

¹ Department of Entomology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, 14456, Geneva, New York.

PMID: 24302047
DOI: 10.1007/BF01020161

Abstract

We conducted a comparative study of volatiles produced by wholeCrataegus hawthorn fruit and four cultivars of apple (Royal Red Delicious, Red Astrachan, McIntosh, and Wealthy) and determined quantitative and qualitative changes of volatiles associated with fruit ripening. Within the approximate range of the GLC fraction known to elicit behavioral activity in the apple maggot fly,Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae), 52 esters were identified.