Sentences with phrase «trap with a pheromone»

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

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 monitor the moths buy some sticky moth traps with pheromones.

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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.

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.

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