From Sheryl Backhouse

I have been asked by a grower in SE Qld for a method to control a stem burrowing grub that insecticide doesn’t work very well against unless you get the timing just right to knock out the instars. Thinking it may be Leucinodes …

Phys.Org

by Mick Kulikowski, North Carolina State University North Carolina State University researchers have shown that adding a small amount of a chemical used in perfumes—nonanal—to a two-chemical combination of other sex pheromones helped …

Phys.Org

by Talia Ogliore, Washington University in St. Louis It's almost Valentine's Day, and love is in the air. Or in the waxy coating on your skin, if you are a vinegar fly. That's where flies encounter pheromones that play an important role …

ScienceBlog

https://scienceblog.com/509164/worm-pheromones-protect-major-crops/

Protecting crops from pests and pathogens without using toxic pesticides has been a longtime goal of farmers. Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute have found that …