Attractant for batocera horsfieldi and application of attractant

• Main Authors: LIU AO, PAN XIANGYU, DUAN SHUANGGANG, QIU CHANGLAI, WANG MANQUN, SUN ZE, ZHENG ZHICHUAN, LIU HAO, JIN HUANAN, YI SHANCHENG
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 30.11.2018
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUSPLANTS; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; TRAPPING

The invention belongs to the fields of forestry insect prevention and control, and particularly relates to an attractant for batocera horsfieldi and an application of the attractant. The attractant provided by the invention comprises 1,3-dihydroxyhexanediol, 3-hydroxyhexyl acetate, 1-hydroxyl-3-hexyl acetate and 1,3-dihexyl acetate. The attractant disclosed by the invention is utilized to attractand kill the batocera horsfieldi, female adult batocera horsfieldi can be efficiently and specially attracted, so that the purposes of concentrated attracting and killing can be achieved, an egg yieldof the batocera horsfieldi can be significantly reduced, a pest population density in a coming year can be reduced, and the purposes of prevention and control are achieved; experiments confirm that 99% or more of attracted and killed insect species are target insect species, a ratio of other insect species is very small, and most of attracted and killed insects are pests, such as scarabs; and theattractant has no attracti