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Children of same-sex couples in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2008
To further develop an understanding of psychological and social functioning of children raised by lesbian couples, the current investigation compared 18 students ages 12 through 16 raised in families led by female same-sex couples who were identified ...
Rivers, I, Noret, N, Poteat, V P
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Behavioral responses of different reproductive statuses and sexes in Hermetia illucens (L) adults to different attractants [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Background The odor of various fermented organic materials acts as an attractant for oviposition by gravid females of the black soldier fly (BSF) to find larval food sources.
Parichart Laksanawimol, Sukdee Singsa, Anchana Thancharoen   +2 more
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Use of Food Attractant to Monitor and Forecast Population Dynamics of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), a Long-Distance Migratory Pest

Agronomy, 2023
The rice leaf folder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, is a significant migratory pest that restricts rice production in Asia and Africa, and monitoring and early warning measures are the basis for its management.
Lingyun Gao, Ran Yan, Wei He, Kongming Wu   +3 more
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Field Evaluation of Selected Plant Volatiles and Conspecific Pheromones as Attractants for Agriotes obscurus and A. lineatus (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

Insects, 2022
Sex pheromones are commonly used in traps to monitor populations and movements of male click beetles, but to date few attractants have been identified for females.
Wim van Herk, Bob Vernon, Gabrielle Bourassa-Tait, Miklós Tóth, Ervin Kovacs   +4 more
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An application of the synthetic sex attractants from the series “EFETOV-2” for studying Procridinae in Italy (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)

SHILAP, 2020
The enantiomers of 2-butyl 2-dodecenoate synthesised in the Crimean Federal University are known as the sex attractants for Procridinae species (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae).
K. A. Efetov, E. E. Kucherenko, G. M. Tarmann   +2 more
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Behavioural and Electrophysiological Response of Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae) to a γ-Lactone Synthetic Semiochemical

Insects, 2023
Attractants are a powerful tool for pest management. The lack of specific attractants for the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus, a complex of cryptic species of great economic importance in South America, makes it difficult to monitor the ...
Lucía Goane, Beatriz N. Carrizo, María Josefina Ruiz, Guillermo E. Bachmann, Fabian H. Milla, Diego F. Segura, Dan Kuzmich, Spencer Walse, María Teresa Vera   +8 more
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Theresimima ampellophaga (Bayle-Barelle, 1808) rediscovered in the Republic of North Macedonia by using sex attractant traps (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)

SHILAP, 2021
Theresimima ampellophaga (Bayle-Barelle, 1808) was known from only three sites in North Macedonia and has never been considered as a pest of grapevine in this territory. The last time it was recorded in North Macedonia about 80 years ago.
A. Nahirnic-Beshkova, S. Beshkov, E. E. Kucherenko, K. A. Efetov   +3 more
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A CONVENIENT AND ECONOMIC METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION OF PHEROMONES [PDF]

Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Assiut University, 1978
The preparation of (Z)-9-tetrardecenoic acid from beef tallow was assessed. Over one kilogram of this acid was obtained, in high purity, by a stepwise procedure involving fractional distillation, low temperature crystallization from acetone and ...
Helmuth Mangold, Nawal El-Rabbat
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Insect pheromones

Journal of Lipid Research, 1968
The evidence for intraspecies chemical communication in insects is reviewed, with emphasis on those studies where known organic compounds have been implicated. These signal-carrying chemicals are known as pheromones.
Fred E. Regnier, John H. Law
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Novel use of stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) as a tool for isolation of oviposition site attractants for gravid Culex quinquefasciatus [PDF]

, 2009
Mosquitoes such as Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) are important vectors of organisms that cause disease in humans. Research into the development of effective standardized odour baits for blood-fed females (oviposition attractants), to ...
Cameron, M. M., Pates, H., Pickett, JA, Mawa, K., Cameron, M., Birkett, M. A., Birkett, M., Logan, J., Rwegoshora, R., Tungu, PK, Rwegoshora, R. T., Pates, H. V., Pickett, J. A., Birkett, MA, Mawa, K, Carson, Connor, Logan, J. G., Pickett, J. A. (John A.), Tungu, P. K., Birkett, Michael Alexander, Rwegoshora, RT, Cameron, MM, Pickett, J., Carson, C., Pates, HV, Carson, C, Tungu, P., Logan, JG   +27 more
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