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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2008 Phlebotomine sand flies are often captured with human bait and/or light traps, either with or without an animal bait. More recently, synthetic attractants have been used as bait in traps to improve the capture of phlebotomine sand flies as well as other ...
Andrey J Andrade +4 more
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Insects, 2023 The study of the semiochemicals of the western flower thrips (WFT), Frankliniella occidentalis, Pergande (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is a relevant topic that spans the last two decades.
Marco A. Díaz +3 more
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Field Attraction of the Vine Weevil Otiorhynchus sulcatus to Kairomones [PDF]
Journal of Economic Entomology, 2012 Root weevils in the genus Otiorhynchus are cited as one of the most important pests in the major nursery and small fruit production areas throughout the United States, western Canada, and northern Europe. A major problem in combating weevil attack is monitoring and timing of control measures.
van Tol, R.W.H.M. +3 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2005 The semiochemical relationships in a predator-prey-host plant system were studied by a series of multiple-choice field assays. The studied system included predatory flies of the genus Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), the bark beetles Ips typographus ...
Jiri HULCR +3 more
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Knowing the Enemy: Inducible Defences in Freshwater Zooplankton
Diversity, 2020 Phenotypic plasticity in defensive traits is an appropriate mechanism to cope with the variable hazard of a frequently changing predator spectrum. In the animal kingdom these so-called inducible defences cover the entire taxonomic range from protozoans ...
Patricia Diel +3 more
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Deciphering Plant-Insect-Microorganism Signals for Sustainable Crop Production
Biomolecules, 2023 Agricultural crop productivity relies on the application of chemical pesticides to reduce pest and pathogen damage. However, chemical pesticides also pose a range of ecological, environmental and economic penalties.
Gareth Thomas +11 more
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Gene up-regulation in response to predator kairomones in the water flea, Daphnia pulex [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Numerous cases of predator-induced polyphenisms, in which alternate phenotypes are produced in response to extrinsic stimuli, have been reported in aquatic taxa to date.
Hitoshi Miyakawa +10 more
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Responses of Diabrotica speciosa to a semiochemical trap characteristics
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2006 Responses of Diabrotica speciosa (Germar) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) to a semiochemical trap characteristics were investigated in the field. The trap consisted of plastic bottles with several perforations (0.5 cm diameter and 2.0 cm distance each other)
Iara Cintra de Arruda-Gatti +2 more
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Effectiveness of synthetic versus natural human volatiles as attractants for Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) sensu stricto [PDF]
, 2010 Females of the African malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu stricto, use human volatiles to find their blood-host. Previous work has shown that ammonia, lactic acid, and aliphatic carboxylic acids significantly affect host orientation and ...
Knols, B.G.J. +2 more
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Cereal Chemistry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Sitophilus zeamais (Mostschulsky), the maize weevil, and Prostephanus truncatus (Horn), the larger grain borer, are two notorious insect pests of farm‐stored products in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). The goal of this study was to determine whether there were interactions between P. truncatus and S. zeamais during storage.
Rashid Suleiman, Kurt A. Rosentrater
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