(MENAFN- Market Press Release) September 13, 2022 8:23 am - The advent of insect pheromone has opened up an effective way of pest control. In the process of pest control in forestry, the use of ...

DALLAS – Jan. 19, 2005 – How do insects smell? Badly, according to a new study, if they lack a certain kind of protein critical to their ability to detect and interpret pheromones – the insect ...

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches, Vol. 79, No. 2 (March/April 2006), pp. 344-356 (13 pages) Abstract Chemical communication is virtually universal among ...

New research announced today, Wednesday 30th September, by a team of leading scientists working with the UK's national Synchrotron, Diamond Light Source, could have a significant impact on the ...

Scientists have developed a molecular sponge that soaks up the pheromones of ants and releases them slowly to attract the pests to an insecticide trap. Scientists at the Universities of Bath and ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...

The camelina plant, a source of cooking oil for centuries, is on its way toward revolutionizing pest control in agriculture. Scientists at ISCA, Inc., a green agtech company based in Riverside, Calif.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BioPhero, the insect pheromone company, today announced it has raised $17 million in Series A funding led by DCVC Bio with participation from new ...

The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis postulates that secondary sexual traits are honest signals of mate quality because the hormones (e.g. testosterone) needed to develop secondary sexual traits ...