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Results were analyzed from six previous studies in which marked bark and ambrosia beetles, Ips typographus, I. paraconfusus, and Trypodendron lineatum (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), were released at the center of concentric rings of pheromone traps. Assuming nearly straight flight paths, a “filtering” equation model predicts recapture percentages on several trap rings of specified radii, trap numbers, and effective attraction radius (EAR) of a pheromone trap. Equations were used to calculate recapture percentages on concentric trap rings as a function of increasing EAR and gave polynomial relationships for each ring with terms equal to the number of inner rings plus one. Results were confirmed by computer simulations. Filtering equations were iterated with increasing EAR values to find one that gave a recapture percentage for the innermost trap ring that matched the field results. The estimated EAR for a synthetic pheromone bait of I. typographus was similar in five tests (range 1.39–1.78 m), but in two other tests was larger (3.27 and 15.9 m). The EAR for pheromone of 75 male I. paraconfusus in ponderosa pine logs ranged from 0.35 to 34.5 m (mean of 4.7 m) and was generally larger for previously pheromone-responding beetles than for freshly emerged ones. For T. lineatum, the EAR of lineatin-baited traps at 100-m radius was 2.43 m. Recaptures of I. typographus were reasonably predicted by the estimated EARs in the filtering model. To obtain perfect fits, another model assumed the EAR could vary with ring radius (dispersal distance) and found that the EAR for I. typographus decreased with dispersal distance in four experiments, but increased or was variable in two others. However, in I. paraconfusus and T. lineatum, the EAR increased with dispersal distance. Simulations that varied combinations of the EAR and random angles of maximum turning (AMT) of beetles stepwise showed that a nearly straight flight path for I. typographus explained observed catches on trap rings best, while a higher AMT of 36° was better to explain catches of T. lineatum. Simulations show that catch per trap ring in relation to radial distance can be influenced by the beetle's AMT (still unobserved in the field). A conceptual model of dispersal and host selection in “aggressive” bark beetles with regard to pioneer and joiner colonization strategies is presented.
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Byers, J.A. Effects of Attraction Radius and Flight Paths on Catch of Scolytid Beetles Dispersing Outward Through Rings of Pheromone Traps. J Chem Ecol 25, 985–1005 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020869422943
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