Codling moth management and chemical ecology

P Witzgall, L Stelinski, L Gut, D Thomson - Annu. Rev. Entomol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Lepidopteran insects use sex pheromones to communicate for mating. Olfactory
communication and mate-finding can be prevented by permeating the atmosphere with …

Tephritid fruit fly semiochemicals: Current knowledge and future perspectives

F Scolari, F Valerio, G Benelli, NT Papadopoulos… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Tephritid fruit flies comprise pests of high agricultural relevance and
species that have emerged as global invaders. Chemical signals play key roles in multiple …

Mating disruption for the 21st century: matching technology with mechanism

JR Miller, LJ Gut - Environmental entomology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Progress toward proof of the principal cause of insect mating disruption under a particular
set of conditions has been hindered by a lack of logical rigor and clean falsifications of …

Insect pest management with sex pheromone precursors from engineered oilseed plants

HL Wang, BJ Ding, JQ Dai, TJ Nazarenus… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pheromones have become an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional
insecticides for pest control. Most current pheromone-based pest control products target …

Integrated fruit production and pest management in Europe: the apple case study and how far we are from the original concept?

P Damos, LA Escudero Colomar, C Ioriatti - Insects, 2015 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on the process of adapting the original concept of Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) to the wider conception of the Integrated Fruit Production (IFP) …

Intruding into a conversation: how behavioral manipulation could support management of Xylella fastidiosa and its insect vectors

S Avosani, R Nieri, V Mazzoni, G Anfora… - Journal of Pest …, 2024 - Springer
Behavioral manipulation (BM) is a multimodal control approach based on the interference
with the stimuli mediating insect perception and interaction with the surroundings. BM could …

Towards pesticide-free farming? Sharing needs and knowledge promotes Integrated Pest Management

A Lucchi, G Benelli - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018 - Springer
The overuse of chemical pesticides led to the fast-growing development of resistance in
targeted insect pests, as well as to severe effects on non-target organisms and human …

Differentiation of competitive vs. non-competitive mechanisms mediating disruption of moth sexual communication by point sources of sex pheromone (Part I): Theory

JR Miller, LJ Gut, FM De Lame, LL Stelinski - Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2006 - Springer
This study establishes a theoretical framework for differentiating among possible behavioral
mechanisms whereby sexual communication of moths is disrupted in crops treated with …

[PDF][PDF] Role of semiochemicals in integrated pest management

LE Smart, GI Aradottir, TJA Bruce - Integrated pest management, 2014 - slunik.slu.se
Semiochemicals are signalling chemicals used to carry information between living
organisms and which cause changes in their behaviour (Dicke and Sabelis, 1988; Nordlund …

[PDF][PDF] Scientific and technological developments in mating disruption of scale insects

FJ Carlos, A Cocco, A Lucchi, Z Mendel… - Entomologia …, 2022 - riunet.upv.es
[EN] Mating disruption (MD) is a species-specific and environmentally friendly pest
management tactic based on the release of synthetic sex pheromones aiming to interrupt the …