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The odour‐bouquet of Blastophagus piniperda L. (Col.: Scol.) 21 terpenes and naphtalin were identified from pentane extracts of B. piniperda by GC/MS‐coupling. The hindguts of boring beetles contained large amounts of oxygenated monoterpenes; myrthenole and trans‐verbenole being the main components in females and myrthenole, trans‐verbenole, pinocarveole and verbenone those in males. Extracts of hindguts of uncopulated females showed verbenone in high concentration and one unknown sex specific compound.
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Francke et al. (1976) studied this question.
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