can be a powerful lure for the larch beetle and potentially used as a trap, Aukema said. The females emit another pheromone to attract mates called frontalin. Aukema and his team found that ...

The Ips typographus, or larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle, is being blown over from France and damaging spruce trees. Pheromone traps are being used, and the commission is ...