The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...

Thousands of bees nestled onto the restaurant’s bright red patio tent. That's where Jim Messer, board certified civil trial ...

New ways to control Colorado Potato Beetle are marrying pheromones, volatiles and potentially natural repellants.

Wireworm damage is now an increasing risk in potato crops across the country, including eastern counties and up into the ...

18, 2025. Farai Shawn Matiashe/Thomson Reuters Foundation Talla said farmers could also use the Fall Armyworm Monitoring and Early Warning System (FAMEWS), a mobile app developed by the FAO to record ...

Soil samples collected in North Dakota wheat fields indicate the lowest populations of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons), since the inception of the survey in 1995, says Janet Knodel, North ...

Enter: pheromone perfume. First, let me explain what the heck pheromones are. “Pheromones are a form of biological, nonverbal communication,” says board-certified dermatologist Karan Lal ...

Maps of fall armyworm movement patterns are now available to producers in real-time, thanks to new technology from a Brisbane-based start-up.

State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Some growers in Eastern states outside of Pennsylvania are also catching male moths in pheromone traps. Krawczyk isn’t sure why. “I’m trying to understand why we’re catching moths when they ...

For example, in a trap baited with CMDA+AA lure — a Trécé product using a combination of pheromone, pear ester and acetic acid — in an orchard with passive mating disruption, one moth captured ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – February was much cooler than average, but will the trend continue through March? February saw 17 days with below average highs, with some days only reaching the low 20s.