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Majallah-i ḥifāẓat-i giyāhān, 2017 Introduction: Codling moth, Cydia pomonella is one of the key pests of apple in Khorasan Razavi province which annually causes severe fruit damage to apple crop.
Hashem Kamali +2 more
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Mating and post-copulation behavior in the tea leafhopper, Empoasca onukii (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 The tea leafhopper, Empoasca onukii, relies on substrate-borne vibrations for sexual communication and is mainly controlled with chemical pesticides, which poses risks to the environment and food safety.
Yao Shan +13 more
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Insects, 2021 Age at mating is one of the most important factors that affect mating selection, sexual performance, and fecundity. We studied the effects of mating age on the mating performance and reproductive fitness of Plagiodera versicolora Laicharting, a serious ...
Lvquan Zhao +3 more
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DISRUPTIVE SELECTION AND ASSORTATIVE MATING INTRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM [PDF]
Evolution, 1981 Disruptive selection (sometimes called diversifying selection) has been defined as simultaneous selection for more than one optimum phenotype within a single population (Mather, 1955). It is usually interpreted to mean favoring the extreme phenotypes of a quantitative character at the expense of those near the mean; however, the term can also apply to ...
Richard, Halliburton, G A E, Gall
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Intraspecific Variation in Female Sex Pheromone of the Codling Moth Cydia pomonella
Insects, 2014 The codling moth, Cydia pomonella L. (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae), is a major pest of apple, pear and walnut orchards worldwide. This pest is often controlled using the biologically friendly control method known as pheromone-based mating disruption. Mating
Claire Duménil +5 more
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Codling Moth Mating Disruption [PDF]
, 2020 Mating disruption became commercially available in the early 1990s, and was adopted by many Utah growers about a decade later. Use of this pest management technology can be daunting due to high up-front costs and monitoring requirements; however, after ...
Alston, Diane G., Murray, Marion
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Scientific and technological developments in mating disruption of scale insects [PDF]
, 2022 [EN] Mating disruption (MD) is a species-specific and environmentally friendly pest management tactic based on the release of synthetic sex pheromones aiming to interrupt the mate-finding communication and prevent mating in the target pest.
Franco. José Carlos +16 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 The application of synthetic sex pheromones to disrupt mating of agricultural pests can be an effective and environmentally friendly alternative to pesticide applications.
Denis S. Willett +2 more
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ٍEfficiency of mating disruption for controlling the leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina L. (Lep.: Cossidae), in walnut orchards [PDF]
نامه انجمن حشرهشناسی ایران, 2015 Leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina L. (Lep.: Cossidae), is a key pest of walnut in Iran. The efficiency of mating disruption by two commercial products including Isonet® Z and Zeumat Universe® was evaluated in 2011 in East Azerbaijan and Kerman provinces.
A. Avand-Faghih +3 more
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Mating disruption for the control of leafrollers on apricots [PDF]
New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 1998 Abstract Otago apricots ( Prunus armeniaca L.) are damaged by the endemic leafroliers, Planotortrix octo Dugdale and Ctenopseustis obliquana (Walker), and an Australian species,
G. F. McLaren +2 more
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