Sentences with phrase «pheromone traps»

When reading your article it occurred to me that pheromone traps would be a way to go but that the vast areas and numbers would be a problem.

They used bat detectors and insect pheromone traps to monitor nightly bat activity, as well as the abundance of the corn earworm moth — a tasty treat for bats and also one of the world's most destructive crop pests.

Pheromones have also been used successfully for pest control purposes: the female attractant is employed as bait to lure males into pheromone traps.

Are synthetic pesticides permitted in pheromone traps?

These measures, she said, include the deployment of pheromone trap catches in various locations across the country to ascertain the levels of infestation, training of MoFA staff and farmers on scouting, early detection and sustainable management of the pest in the event of an outbreak.

The viburnum is being hurt by a Japanese beetle, which can be caught with a pheromone trap in early summer next year.

Not exact matches

Many orchardists spray to control weeds and nuisance fruit crop pests, or employ pheromone insect traps to minimise codling moth damage in particular.

The idea is, they're lured into the trap with a pheromone attractant and then they get stuck.

After the insects invaded North America in the early 20th century, farmers discovered that pheromone - laced traps could tempt males away from females and from maize crops that the moths infest.

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 pheromone.

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

SFU biologists Gerhard Gries, Stephen Takács and Regine Gries, research chemist Huimin Zhai say their latest pheromone discovery overcomes that trap - avoidance behaviour.

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.»

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

Females can detect pheromones at distances of at least 2 kilometers and are lured to traps expecting a sexual encounter, while males are left with fewer mates.

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 %.

Scientists are also trying out a pheromone that lures termites into a trap.

SFU biologists Gerhard Gries, Stephen Takács and Regine Gries, and research chemist Huimin Zhai say their latest pheromone discovery overcomes that trap - avoidance behaviour.

«The traps utilizing sex pheromones to attract only male cockroaches are not sufficient,» says Nishino.

In Adelaide, Professor Mike Tyler is exploring the possibility of using pheromones (e.g., sex - attractant chemicals) to help in toad - trapping.

To monitor the moths buy some sticky moth traps with pheromones.

(In Norway, where pheromone - baited traps were developed to control the pest, there was even a hit song called «Beetle Bark Boogie.»)