Washington, D.C. – Dr. Pingxi Xu has been awarded the 2005 international Prize in Neurobiology by the journal Science and Eppendorf. He is being recognized for his new insights on how insects "smell" ...

(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 ...

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.

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

A research team demonstrates that increased levels of ozone resulting from anthropogenic air pollution can degrade insect sex pheromones, which are crucial mating signals, and thus prevent successful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Mate attraction involves multiple sensory modalities with almost as many variations as there are numbers of species. It broadly includes pheromones of single-celled organisms to those involved in ...