Artificial sex pheromones could reduce pest infestation
Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 10:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) -- A University of California, Davis, discovery that male navel orangeworms respond more readily to artificial or "deceitful" female sex pheromones than to natural sex pheromones could lead to a better mating disruption approach, resulting in a reduced larval infestation of California's multibillion almond, pistachio and walnut crops.