Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde, Pflanzenschutz, Umweltschutz (1994) 67, 147-155

C.B. Malphettes, D. Fourgeres and F.X. Saintonge (1994)
Untersuchung über die Sexualentwicklung der mit Kairomonenfallen gefangenen Weibchen des Großen Braunen Rüsselkäfers
[Study of the sexual development of Large Pine Weevil females (Hylobius abietis L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) caught in kairomones baited pitfall traps]
Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde, Pflanzenschutz, Umweltschutz 67 (5), 147-155
Abstract: In 1991, a study was carried out in the Orleans State Forest, to ascertain that adults population of Large Pine Weevil caught in pitfall traps, dug into the soil and baited with ethanol and alpha-pinen, could constitute a suitable sampling of the main population prevailing in the field. This study was conducted on old pine stand plots, where the exploitation have been realized during winter either in 1988/89, 1989/90 or in 1990/91. It was assumed that, in the studied area, in spring females lay eggs into the roots of pine stumps that have been cut the previous winter. The adults of the new generation emerge from the ground during the summer of the second growth season following the cutting, then overwinter after maturation feeding (and eventually inflict damage on seedlings). These young adults lay eggs during the spring of the third growth season, while they feed and damage seedlings again. The physiological age of caught adults was estimated by ovaries development of dissected females. Results show that as females as males are caught in this trap design. Trapped females on age plots X+2 old (see text), overwintered at this place. The majority have already laid their eggs in the previous year. Females which have not yet laid eggs, were also caught. All these females were mostly caught in traps along the plot edge. The catches mainly took place early in the growing season. Trapped females on age plots X+1 old, also belong to two different physiological aged populations. Some females have laid eggs in 1990, and the main part had not laid eggs yet. The catches took place up to May. The catches in age plots X are higher and later. They are composed of eggs laying females. Catches occur in May and June. This trap design attracts weevils in the same way as fresh stumps do. Therefore, it lures weevils in the reproductive period. So, it is quite understandable that very few young weevils, that are going to overwinter without reproduction, can be found in these traps. These young weevils are sensitive to other stimulus and it is may be, only by chance, that they are found in this trap type. Furthermore, it seems that in this area, the large pine weevil could run its life cycle only in a year. It might be the consequence of the anormaly warm weather of 1989 and 1990. We observed that insects grown in logs burried in the ground early in the growth season, left them at the end of that season. So, this trapping method seems suitable to be used for survey of weevils populations during their eggs laying period. It could be used in a study for forecasting future damages, but in this case, it would be necessary to take the amount of development supports, i.e. density of fresh pine stumps on the plot, in account.
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(original language: German)
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Hylobius abietis		France