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. 2020 Apr 21;147(7):731–739. doi: 10.1017/S0031182020000530

Table 2.

Chemical compounds of host kairomones with an attractive effect on mites

Species Tested substances Experiments Effect References
Dermanyssus gallinae (De Geer 1778) 1-Heptadecene Feeding experiments
Field experiments
Y-tube olfactometers
Attraction Pageat (2005); Harrington et al. (2010); Koenraadt and Dicke (2010); Roy et al. (2018)
9-Octadecene-ol 1 (oleyl alcohol)
Carbone dioxide
Chicken skin extracts
(E)-non-2-enal
Ethyl acetate
Feathers (Aged and Fresh)
Heptadecane
Nonanal
Nonanoïc acid
Oct-1-en-3-ol
Octadecane
Octanal
Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Scopoli 1972) N-Phenyl-N-glucoside No details available Attraction Carr and Roe (2016)
N-Phenyl-N-mannoside
Phytoseiulus macropilis (Banks 1904) VOC from Tetranychus urticae Y-Tube olfacometers Attraction Amin et al. (2010)
Varroa destructor (Anderson and Trueman 2000) Ethyl palmitate Mite wind tunnel experiments Attraction Calderone and Lin (2001)
Methyl linolenate
Methyl palmitate
Varroa jacobsoni (Oudemans 1904) Ethyl palmitate 4 arms-olfactometers Attraction Le Conte et al. (1989)
Methyl linolenate
Methyl palmitate