Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Sujitha N, Umapathy G, Suganthi A and Amirtham D

Abstract:
In contrary to the short range attraction of male released pheromone in lepidoptera the Greater wax moth Galleria mellonella male attracts the female with pheromone along with acoustic signals over long distances. In the laboratory experiments conducted, the pheromone components in the solvent extracted fore wing glands of calling G. mellonella male was identified by using GC-MS. The pheromone compounds viz., undecanal as the major pheromone compound nonanol, undecanol as the minor pheromone compounds.