Global expansion of human activities is associated with the introduction of novel stimuli,
such as anthropogenic noise, artificial lights and chemical agents. Progress in documenting …

Olfaction is an essential sensory modality for insects and their olfactory environment is
mostly made up of plant-emitted volatiles. The terrestrial vegetation produces an amazing …

Fluid turbulence is a double-edged sword for the navigation of macroscopic animals, such
as birds, insects, and rodents. On the one hand, turbulence enables pheromone …

Common air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides (NO x), emitted in diesel exhaust, and
ozone (O 3), have been implicated in the decline of pollinating insects. Reductionist …

Odours are transported in turbulent plumes, which result in rapid concentration fluctuations,
that contain rich information about the olfactory scenery, such as the composition and …

Localizing the sources of stimuli is essential. Most organisms cannot eat, mate, or escape
without knowing where the relevant stimuli originate. For many, if not most, animals, olfaction …

Mosquitoes are important vectors of disease and require sources of carbohydrates for
reproduction and survival. Unlike host-related behaviors of mosquitoes, comparatively less …

Insects, including those which provide vital ecosystems services as well as those which are
devastating pests or disease vectors, locate their resources mainly based on olfaction …

Insects detect odorants primarily using odorant receptors (OR) housed in the dendritic
membrane of olfactory sensory neurons (OSN). Pioneering studies indicated that insects …

Attract-and-kill has considerable potential as a tactic in integrated management of pests of
agricultural crops, but the use of sex pheromones as attractants is limited by male multiple …