Sentences with phrase «baited with that pheromone»

When he and his colleagues put traps baited with that pheromone out in the woods, after 24 hours the traps contained «a big multi-species party.»

Not exact matches

With the help of Forest Service entomologist William Bedard, Wood built enormous glue traps to test the chemicals as bait: six - foot - high sheets of nylon coated with Stick - Em adhesive and the attraction pheromWith the help of Forest Service entomologist William Bedard, Wood built enormous glue traps to test the chemicals as bait: six - foot - high sheets of nylon coated with Stick - Em adhesive and the attraction pheromwith Stick - Em adhesive and the attraction pheromone.

In the lab, and in field experiments, female brown rats readily enter trap boxes baited with the male brown rat's sex pheromone.

For example, by baiting traps with the appropriate pheromone, scientists can detect pest insects and monitor their movements.

A few years ago, Johnson demonstrated that baiting lamprey traps with the pheromone, called 3kPZS, increased trap efficiency by 10 % on average, and in some streams more than 30 %.

To that end, the Bait Hive attracts the roving queen bee with a pheromone - laced beeswax inside, and once inside, the beekeeper turns the rotating front door — which has various - sized openings — so that the cut openings will allow bee drones inside, but not the queen, out.