| abstract |
In the technology of population control of lepidopteral insects as an agricultural or horticultural pest, such as tomato pinworms, by distributing dispensers of sex pheromone of the species over the field, an unexpected discovery has been made that, to the contrary to the general understanding for the effectiveness of the E-isomer of the pheromone compound, e.g., 4-tridecenyl acetate, a rather higher activity can be obtained by using a mixture of the E-isomer and Z-isomer in a mixing proportion of 1:1 to 3:1 than the E-isomer in a high purity. |