Phenol, an attractant for the male grass grub beetle ( <i>Costelytra zealandica</i> (White)) (Scarahaeidae : Coleoptera)

Abstract

Abstract Pure phenol mixed with water at concentrations varying from 500 ppm to 10 ppm was attractive in field tests to the male beetle of C. zealandica . Seventeen other phenolic compounds tested as undiluted reagents did not attract a significant number of beetles.