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Biology, invasion and management of the agricultural invader: Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2021
The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), is native to the Americas. It has rapidly invaded 47 African countries and 18 Asian countries since the first detection of invasion into Nigeria and Ghana in 2016.
Jing WAN, Cong HUANG, Chang-you LI, Hong-xu ZHOU, Yong-lin REN, Zai-yuan LI, Long-sheng XING, Bin ZHANG, Xi QIAO, Bo LIU, Cong-hui LIU, Yu XI, Wan-xue LIU, Wen-kai WANG, Wan-qiang QIAN, Simon MCKIRDY, Fang-hao WAN   +16 more
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Towards the knowledge of the fauna of clearwing moths (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan

Acta Biologica Sibirica
A small collection of five clearwing moths (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) collected using artificial sex attractants in the vicinity of Ordubad, Nikhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan, is presented and illustrated. Four species, viz.
Oleg G. Gorbunov, Nataly Snegovaya, Nazar A. Shapoval, Ismayil B.-O. Mammadov, Roman V. Yakovlev   +4 more
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Function and Characterization Analysis of BodoOBP8 from Bradysia odoriphaga (Diptera: Sciaridae) in the Recognition of Plant Volatiles and Sex Pheromones

Insects, 2021
The belowground pest Bradysia odoriphaga (Diptera: Sciaridae) has a sophisticated and sensitive olfactory system to detect semiochemical signals from the surrounding environment. In particular, odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are crucial in capturing and
Yuting Yang, Liang Luo, Lixia Tian, Changwei Zhao, Hongli Niu, Yifeng Hu, Caihua Shi, Wen Xie, Youjun Zhang   +8 more
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Dispersal From Natal Patch Correlates With the Volatility of Female Sex Pheromones in Parasitoid Wasps

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Chemical communication via pheromones is considered the oldest and most widespread form of communication in nature. However, the way that the enormous diversity of species-specific pheromones evolved is still of debate.
Lea C. Böttinger, Johannes Stökl
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Evaluation of the Efficacy of Sex Pheromones and Food Attractants Used to Monitor and Control Synanthedon Myopaeformis (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2016
Synanthedon myopaeformis (Borkhausen, 1789) (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) is a prominent pest of commercial apple orchards in Europe. the sex pheromones of S. myopaeformis and food attractants based on apple juice, beer and red wine were evaluated as tools for
František Kocourek, Jitka Stará
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Development of synthetic volatile attractant for male Ectropis obliqua moths

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2016
The tea geometrid Ectropis obliqua is one of the most serious leaf-feeding insect pests in tea (Camellia sinensis) in East Asia. Although several volatile chemicals emitted from tea plants have been reported to be attractive to E.
Xiao-ling SUN, Xi-wang LI, Zhao-jun XIN, Juan-juan HAN, Wei RAN, Shu LEI   +5 more
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Ageing and sex attraction of Teratorhabditis nematode

Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences
Sex attraction was observed in the free - living nematode Teratorhabdits palmarum (Gerber & Giblin-Davis, 1990). Attraction by means of pheromones provides the ability to find and distinguish appropriate individual with which to mate.
Wajih Jamal
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Results of long-term use of pheromone traps to monitor harmful tortricid moths in Leningrad Region of Russia

BIO Web of Conferences, 2020
Monitoring the population dynamics of harmful moths using synthetic sex attractants in Leningrad Region was carried out in the fruit experimental orchard of St. Petersburg Agrarian University (Pushkin) and small private orchards of Pushkin district. As a
Ovsyannikova Elena, Grichanov Igor
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Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) of Thrace Region of Turkey

Nota Lepidopterologica, 2018
The Zygaenidae fauna of the Thrace Region (European Turkey) was studied by using attractant traps as well as by netting specimens in biotopes. Esters of 2-dodecenoic acid and stereoisomers of 2-butanol were used as sex attractants.
Feza Can Cengiz, Konstantin A. Efetov, Kamuran Kaya, Elena E. Kucherenko, Zühal Okyar, Gerhard M. Tarmann   +5 more
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Drosophila melanogaster chemical ecology revisited: 2-D distribution maps of sex pheromones on whole virgin and mated flies by mass spectrometry imaging

BMC Zoology, 2020
Background Sexual behavior in Drosophila melanogaster flies is greatly influenced by chemical cues. In this study, a spatial distribution of female and male sex pheromones was investigated on the surface of virgin and mated six-day-old fruit flies ...
Filip Kaftan, Purva Kulkarni, Markus Knaden, Sebastian Böcker, Bill S. Hansson, Aleš Svatoš   +5 more
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