The effect of feeding and mate presence on the pheromone production of the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) - Dataset

Amounts (ug/beetle) of known pheromone components produced by male and female spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis), either alone or paired with the opposite sex, and fed for 0, 24, or 48 hours in recently cut white spruce feeding bolts. The beetles were collected as emerging adults from infested spruce harvested in Nova Scotia.Pheromone extractions were performed by hindgut dissections into 4:1 pentane:hexane spiked with 5 ng/ul of heptyl acetate (internal standard), and were later quantified by GC-MS.