Pheromones give nematodes a boost in controlling pests
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https://phys.org/news/2019-07-pheromones-nematodes-boost-pests.html
by Sandra Avant, Agricultural Research Service
Beneficial nematodes are used as biological control agents to fight a variety of insect pests that severely damage crops. However, in many cases the nematodes don't measure up to other control methods such as certain chemical pesticides.
A recent Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study, published in The Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, shows that beneficial nematodes (also called entomopathogenic nematodes) treated with pheromone extracts are more effective at killing an economically important insect—the pecan weevil—as well as the black soldier fly.
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