The dispensers were kept in the J Chem Ecol shade under the roof of traps and equipped with loosely ap- Experiment 4: We added 1-hexanol to the pheromone plied aluminum foil to provide protection from light, since blend in the same or in separate dispensers to assess if (E)-4-oxo-2-hexenal is light-sensitive (Fountain et al. [...] lineolatus catches by 1-hexanol was a For Experiment 4, 10 mg of 1-hexanol was added to the ter- result of chemical interactions with pheromone constitu- nary pheromone blend either in the pheromone bait or in a ents (Table 1). [...] (2014) reported that the ratios of tance of the compounds identified was also similar in the the same three sex pheromone components for the closely relat- present study, as binary blends from which either (E)-2- ed Lygus, Lygocoris and Liocoris species, were less important. [...] Subsequent field experiments, in which the compound was tested in the same or separate dis- pensers showed that this was likely due to a biological response and not to a chemical reaction in the lure. [...] lineolatus males/females caught in the experiment (box plot diagram maximum, the 1st and 3rd quartiles of catches of the respective indicating median, minimum, maximum, the 1st and 3rd quartiles of treatments) catches of the respective treatments) J Chem Ecol Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at .
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