Hi Asma,

Something like this might help as a starting point:

Omar, S., Lalonde, M., Marcotte, M., Cook, M., Proulx, J., Goel, K., Durst, T., Philogène, B. J. R. and Arnason, J. T. (2000), Insect growth-reducing and antifeedant activity in Eastern North America hardwood species and bioassay-guided isolation of active principles from Prunus serotina. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 2: 253–257.

You might find you need to search first for 'chemicals in Prunus bark', then for each of these search to see if their effect on beetles is known (e.g. if the same chemical effect is known from other tree genera). Anyhow, good luck with your search..

Hi David;

I found some interesting work but it was very old. Thank you for the reference.

Asma

Hi Asma,

You can take a look at these two links for getting information about chemical constituents of Prunus stem bark (however, I have no idea regarding their use against beetles):

http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/JSR/article/view/7725

http://www.ansfoundation.org/Uploaded%20Pdf/32/312-314.pdf

Cheers