Tobias Frühbrodt stellt jetzt vor, wie man durch künstliche #Pheromone den Befall durch den #Borkenkäfer #Buchdrucker verringern kann. Ablenkung und Verwirrung ist das Ziel. #VerbIps #fowita #fowita2023 #forst #forstwissenschaft #Forstwissenschaften #forstwissenschaftlichetagung #Waldschutz

12/ In conclusion: we found no evidence that traps reduce the losses due to Ips typographus despite a large sample size and a careful experimental design. On the contrary, #pheromone traps were associated with a slightly higher risk.🌲🔍

Tinkering with pheromones isn't as innocuous as it might seem! 👃

Male #moth 'aphrodisiac' revealed.

#pheromone #signalling #semiochemistry

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-male-moth-aphrodisiac-revealed.html

The polyphagous fall armyworm is a significant #pest in its native range, the Americas. It has spread to Africa and Asia and has become a devastating pest of #maize and other crops like sorghum or cotton. A new #pheromone component has been described which significantly improves trapping of male moths - article in Pest Management Science (2023, vol. 79, issue 7, pp. 2831-2839) by Ahmed M. Saveer and others - https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.7460

#Pheromone found to put scared #rats at ease could lead to humane pest control.

#signalling #semiochemistry

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-pheromone-rats-ease-humane-pest.html

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-pheromone-rats-ease-humane-pest.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-06-pheromone-rats-ease-humane-pest.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1671171074715967490#m

#Pheromone found to put scared #rats at ease could lead to humane pest control @cellpressnews https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2589004223011586 https://phys.org/news/2023-06-pheromone-rats-ease-humane-pest.html

Locusts are terrifying, particularly when they are swarming. Their ability to decimate the agricultural output of a region has been shown time and again.

One aspect of their "gregarious" swarming phase is their competitive cannibalism of each other.

Now, scientists have genetically identified the pheromone compound used to prevent this, possibly opening new control methods.

#Locust #Agriculture #Pheromone #Genetics #Biology #Biotechnology #Science #Scicomm

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade6155

Fine young cannibals: #locust study could lead to better #pestcontrol
Discovery of ‘anti-cannibalism’ #pheromone raises possibility of spraying #crops with similar chemical as non-toxic #insecticide
Or “you could get the locusts to behave more cannibalistically and potentially control themselves in that way,” said Bill Hansson, the director of the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology at the Max Planck Institute and senior author of the research.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/04/fine-young-cannibals-locust-study-better-pest-control

Chemical #signal protects migratory #locusts from #cannibalism.

#sensing #serotonin #dopamine #genome_editing #phenylacetonitrile #pheromone

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-chemical-migratory-locusts-cannibalism.html

Attract customers with pheromones! Our patent pending blend of synthetic pheromones overrides the decision making part of the brain and gives them an overwhelming urge to spend money at your place of business. #smellvertising #pheromone #sales #marketing

#Cat #Drugs
> Another #study shows that #Feliway™ doesn’t work (2015)
> #Feliway is a human-created chemical copycat (no pun intended) of [cat] #pheromones
> some of the studies (including ones with double-blind, #placebo-controlled methodologies) find positive results. […] most of those #studies were funded by the parent company
> What I can conclude right now is that we’ve got a #pheromone mess, and it would be great for someone to clean it up with some decent studies.
http://whatyourcatwants.com/feliway