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 ...

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.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Insect sexual communication relies to a significant extent on pheromones, chemical attractants that specifically allow males and females of a species to mate. Sex pheromones are distinctive to males ...

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 ...

Eusocial insects represent one of nature’s most sophisticated social systems, in which chemical communication forms the backbone of colony cohesion and regulation. Chemical signals, including ...

The crop protection company Provivi is boosting production of an insect pheromone that controls the European grapevine moth. The sex pheromone confuses male moths and makes it difficult for them to ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BioPhero, the insect pheromone company, today announced it has raised $17 million in Series A funding led by DCVC Bio with participation from new ...

A major evolutionary transition to eusociality with reproductive division of labor between queens and workers has arisen independently at least 10 times in the ants, bees, and wasps. Pheromones ...