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 ...

There are many ways to communicate with prospective romantic partners. If you are a Japanese scarab beetle, it's a matter of distinguishing left from right. New work from U.S. and Chinese scientists, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sex pheromones are vital in facilitating the chemical communication that underpins insect courtship and mating behavior. Among female American cockroaches (Periplaneta americana), two key volatile sex ...

Japanese scarab beetles (Popillia japonica) are a significant pest and strictly quarantined outside Japan. Female beetles attract mates with a mating hormone, japonilure, but males only respond to one ...