Exploitation of insect vibrational signals reveals a new method of pest management.

ABSTRACT: Food production is considered to be the main source of human impact on the environment and the concerns about detrimental effects of pesticides on biodiversity and human health are likely to lead to an increasingly restricted use of chemicals in agriculture. Since the first successful field trial, pheromone based mating disruption enabled sustainable insect control, which resulted in reduced levels of pesticide use. Organic farming is one of the fastest growing segments of agriculture and with the continuously growing public concern about use of pesticides, the main remaining challenge in increasing the safety of the global food production is to identify appropriate alternative mating disruption approaches for the numerous insect pests that do not rely on chemical communication. In the pre

SUBMITTER: Eriksson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3310055 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature