With Valentine’s Day just passed, love is in the air, and what better time is there to dive into the fascinating world of animal pheromones? Pheromones are chemical scent molecules released by a ...

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 ...

A bioengineered oilseed plant can produce a moth sex pheromone molecule used to control insect pests. Pheromones are chemical signals that cause a behavioural response in members of the same or ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Locusts are voracious eaters with appetites that extend to members of their own ...

Methods are lacking for controlling the spread of disease among humans and livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. Now, a new insight into how tsetse flies mate could bolster the arsenal of tools to manage ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — CIDE-TRAK NOW MESO uses pheromones to disrupt mating among harmful insects, promoting organic farming and reducing pesticide use. A new method called CIDE-TRAK NOW Meso ...

The crop protection start-up Provivi has received a $10 million investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to produce pheromone-based insect control technology for smallholder farmers in ...

BEND, Ore., June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Suterra LLC today announced the launch of BioAmp® AA, the world's first trail pheromone adjuvant for the control of Argentine Ants (Linepithema humile).

Research into the chemical ecology of pheromones in weevil species has significantly enriched our understanding of insect communication and behaviour. Pheromones, the chemical signals used to mediate ...

A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...