Flight pattern of some Scolytidae attracted to flight barrier traps baited with ethanol in an oak forest in Greece.

In an oak forest (Quercus frainetto) flight barrier traps baited with ethanol were used in order to attract wood and bark boring insects and study their flight pattern. There were trapped 19 species from which 9 were Scolytidae, 3 Bostrychidae, 2 Anobiidae, 1 Platypodidae and 1 Buprestidae. The most frequently species trapped was Xyleborus saxeseni. Totally 5 scolytid species (X. saxeseni, X. dispar, X. monographus, X. dryographus and Trypodendron signatum) were trapped in relatively high numbers. Their flight pattern is presented and discussed.