Electrodes find beetles' favorite scents

From: Resource | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Attaching electrodes to the tips of Colorado potato beetles' antennae led ARS scientists at the Vegetable Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., to discover chemical scents that attract the pests.

Colorado potato beetles are the crop's most destructive enemy, costing growers millions of dollars in chemical control and crop losses. For at least 73 years, scientists have been searching for the scent that attracts the yellow-and-black bugs to solanaceous plants.

Entomologist Joseph C. Dickens made the recent find while exposing the insects to different potato leaf ...

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