@article{hosseini_goldansaz_menken_wijk_roessingh_groot_2017, title={Field Attraction of Carob Moth to Host Plants and Conspecific Females}, volume={110}, ISSN={["1938-291X"]}, DOI={10.1093/jee/tox218}, abstractNote={Abstract The carob moth, Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller; Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), is a devastating pest in high-value crops around the world. An efficient sex pheromone attractant is still missing for the management of this pest, because the major pheromone component is unstable. Host plant volatiles attract herbivore insects and have shown to have good potential to be exploited as alternatives or supplements to sex pheromones.To explore this possibility in carob moth, we assessed the attraction of moths to the volatiles of mature pistachio and different fruit stages of pomegranate, alone and in combination with virgin females, using sticky delta traps in pomegranate orchards of Iran. Traps baited with mature pomegranates, whether uncracked or cracked, infested or uninfested, caught significantly larger numbers of male and both mated and virgin female carob moths than unbaited traps. Traps baited with headspace extract of cracked pomegranate only caught mated females, while mature pistachio only attracted males. Pomegranate flowers, unripe pomegranate, and headspace extract of pistachio did not attract moths. Traps baited with cracked fruit caught more mated females than traps baited with uncracked fruit. Males were attracted similarly to traps baited with cracked-infested pomegranate as to traps baited with virgin females alone. Interestingly, the combination of cracked pomegranate and virgin female enhanced the attraction of virgin females.Together, our results show that volatiles from cracked pomegranates alone or in combination with female sex pheromone have great potential for application in pest management programs of carob moth.}, number={5}, journal={JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY}, author={Hosseini, Seyed Ali and Goldansaz, Seyed Hossein and Menken, Steph B. J. and Wijk, Michiel and Roessingh, Peter and Groot, Astrid T.}, year={2017}, month={Oct}, pages={2076–2083} }
 @article{van wijk_heath_lievers_schal_groot_2017, title={Proximity of signallers can maintain sexual signal variation under stabilizing selection}, volume={7}, ISSN={2045-2322}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17327-9}, DOI={10.1038/s41598-017-17327-9}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={1}, journal={Scientific Reports}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={van Wijk, Michiel and Heath, Jeremy and Lievers, Rik and Schal, Coby and Groot, Astrid T.}, year={2017}, month={Dec} }
 @article{hosseini_van wijk_ke_goldansaz_schal_groot_2016, title={Experimental evidence for chemical mate guarding in a moth}, volume={6}, ISSN={2045-2322}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38567}, DOI={10.1038/srep38567}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={1}, journal={Scientific Reports}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Hosseini, Seyed Ali and van Wijk, Michiel and Ke, Gao and Goldansaz, Seyed Hossein and Schal, Coby and Groot, Astrid T.}, year={2016}, month={Dec} }