Isolation and identification of a component of the sex pheromone of Aegeria apiformis

An electroantennographically active substance has been isolated from an extract of the sex pheromone of the hornet clearwing mothAegeria apiformis C. and has been identified by gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry as octadeca-cis-3,cis-13-dien-1-ol.All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Biological Methods of Plant Protection, Kishinev. Donetsk Botanical Garden, Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR. Insect Attractants Behavior and Basic Biology Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 126–128, January–February, 1988.