Sex pheromones and their impact on pest management

P Witzgall, P Kirsch, A Cork - Journal of chemical ecology, 2010 - Springer
The idea of using species-specific behavior-modifying chemicals for the management of
noxious insects in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, stored products, and for insect vectors of …

Understanding heliothine (Lepidoptera: Heliothinae) pests: what is a host plant?

JP Cunningham, MP Zalucki - Journal of Economic Entomology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Heliothine moths (Lepidoptera: Heliothinae) include some of the world's most
devastating pest species. Whereas the majority of nonpest heliothinae specialize on a single …

Odorant receptors for detecting flowering plant cues are functionally conserved across moths and butterflies

M Guo, L Du, Q Chen, Y Feng, J Zhang… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Odorant receptors (ORs) are essential for plant–insect interactions. However, despite the
global impacts of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) as major herbivores and pollinators …

Oxidation products from omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids during a simulated shelf life of edible oils

MS Nogueira, B Scolaro, GL Milne, IA Castro - Lwt, 2019 - Elsevier
Nutritional guidelines recommend reduced intake of saturated fatty acids to prevent
cardiovascular disease. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are proposed as substitutes for …

A push–pull strategy for controlling the tea green leafhopper (Empoasca flavescens F.) using semiochemicals from Tagetes erecta and Flemingia macrophylla

Y Niu, S Han, Z Wu, C Pan, M Wang… - Pest Management …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The tea green leafhopper, Empoasca flavescens is the most important pest
in Chinese tea plantations. For decades its control has been executed almost exclusively …

The “sequential cues hypothesis”: A conceptual model to explain host location and ranking by polyphagous herbivores

R Silva, AR Clarke - Insect Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Successfully locating a host plant is crucial for an insect herbivore to feed and/or oviposit.
However, locating a host within a complex environment that may contain an array of different …

植食性害虫食诱剂的研究与应用

蔡晓明, 李兆群, 潘洪生, 陆宴辉 - 中国生物防治学报, 2018 - zgswfz.com.cn
植食性害虫主要取食植物的茎叶, 果实, 花蜜等, 并且常对某些食物表现出明显的偏好性.
植物挥发物在害虫食物偏好选择行为中发挥着重要作用. 基于害虫偏好食源或其挥发物研制的食 …

Development of a synthetic plant volatile‐based attracticide for female noctuid moths. II. Bioassays of synthetic plant volatiles as attractants for the adults of the cotton …

PC Gregg, AP Del Socorro… - Australian Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports olfactometer studies to determine the attractiveness of synthetic
equivalents of plant volatiles to Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) moths. Synthetic volatiles …

Large‐area field application confirms the effectiveness of toxicant‐infused bait for managing Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) in maize fields

L Wang, L He, X Zhu, J Zhang, N Li… - Pest Management …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Maize is one of the world's most important crops, so its stable production
and supply is crucial for food security and socioeconomic development. The cotton …

Field background odour should be taken into account when formulating a pest attractant based on plant volatiles

X Cai, L Bian, X Xu, Z Luo, Z Li, Z Chen - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Attractants for pest monitoring and controlling can be developed based on plant volatiles.
Previously, we showed that tea leafhopper (Empoasca onukii) preferred grapevine, peach …