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Mealworm Frass as a Novel Insect Food-Based Attractant: The Case of Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae) [PDF]
InsectsThe management of Bactrocera oleae (Rossi, 1790) has relied on chemical insecticides, applied as bait or cover sprays. However, concerns over insecticide resistance and environmental impact have driven the search for more effective and eco-friendly ...
Ioannis E. Koufakis +4 more
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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2014 Facial attractiveness has important social consequences. Despite a widespread belief that beauty cannot be defined, in fact, there is considerable agreement across individuals and cultures on what is found attractive. By considering that attraction and mate choice are critical components of evolutionary selection, we can better understand the ...
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Color, Bacteria, and Mosquito Eggs as Ovipositional Attractants for \u3ci\u3eAedes Aegypti\u3c/i\u3e and \u3ci\u3eAedes Albopictus\u3c/i\u3e (Diptera: Culicidae) [PDF]
, 2018 Selected bacterial washes, color, and mosquito eggs were comparatively examined as ovipositional attractants for Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Any evidence of additive activity was noted.
Pavlovich, Steven G, Rockett, C. Lee
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Primary screening of attractants to Drosophila fly damaging Myrica rubra fruits
浙江大学学报. 农业与生命科学版, 2008 The attractants to Drosophila fly damaging Myrica rubra were screened in wind tunnel, by using Drosophila melanogaster as test fly with orthogonal experimental design.
SHAN Li-ping, HUANG Qian-bin, SHI Zu-hua
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Chemotaxis: a feedback-based computational model robustly predicts multiple aspects of real cell behaviour [PDF]
, 2011 The mechanism of eukaryotic chemotaxis remains unclear despite intensive study. The most frequently described mechanism acts through attractants causing actin polymerization, in turn leading to pseudopod formation and cell movement.
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Attractive and non-attractive currencies [PDF]
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2021 In the foreign exchange market, time-varying transaction costs and interest rates may define the time-varying set of attractive currencies for investors. Our study shows that when the currencies are attractive, they tend to deviate from the uncovered interest rate parity and to comove with the global stochastic discount factor (SDF).
Dupuy, P., James, J., Marsh, I. W.
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In search of a new attractant for monitoring Stegobium paniceum L. (Coleoptera: Anobiidae)
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2018 Stegobium paniceum (L.) is a major pest for several stored products worldwide. Monitoring methods for this species, based on pheromone traps, are affected by the complexity and expensiveness of the chemical synthesis of the pheromone isomer [(2S,3R,1’R ...
Guarino, Salvatore +7 more
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eLife, 2014 A beetle pheromone that lures nematode worms to an insect host can also stop their development or even kill them outright.
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Plant volatile organic compounds attractive to Lygus pratensis
Open Life Sciences, 2022 Lygus pratensis, an important agricultural pest, is seriously detrimental to cotton in China. For the research and development of attractants, the present study screened and identified plant volatiles with activity against the pest.
Feng Hongzu +5 more
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Assessing the Attractiveness of Three Baits for Roof Rats in California Citrus Orchards
Agronomy, 2021 Roof rats (Rattus rattus) are common pests of tree fruit and nut orchards in California. Tracking tunnels are an effective and practical tool for monitoring changes in roof rat numbers in orchard systems, but they rely on the use of attractive baits to ...
Kallista N. Wales +2 more
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