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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Locusts are voracious eaters with appetites that extend to members of their own ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moth pheromone biosynthesis underpins a crucial communication system that governs mate attraction and reproductive isolation. This process entails a series of chemical transformations in which fatty ...