Some animals release chemical pheromones which can trigger behavioral or hormonal changes in other animals. It is known that calm rats can reduce fear in nearby rats, but the exact mechanism was ...

Beneficial nematodes are used as biological control agents to fight a variety of insect pests that severely damage crops. However, in many cases the nematodes don't measure up to other control methods ...

The crop science company FMC is acquiring the pheromone producer BioPhero for $200 million. BioPhero, a Danish start-up that spun out of Irina Borodina’s lab at the Technical University of Denmark in ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...

Sexually confusing moths has emerged as a way to force the pests out of the wardrobe. In a new pest control treatment, experts lured male moths and covered them in a “perfume” of artificial pheromones ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The camelina plant, a source of cooking oil for centuries, is on its way toward revolutionizing pest control in agriculture. Scientists at ISCA, Inc., a green agtech company based ...

Sea lampreys are bad news and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has come up with a new way to deal with the invasive species by registering a mating pheromone as a biopesticide. Called 3kPZS, ...

Cornell University entomologists have unlocked an evolutionary secret to how insects evolve into new species. The discovery has major implications for the control of insect populations through ...

The camelina plant, a source of cooking oil for centuries, is on its way toward revolutionizing pest control in agriculture. Scientists at ISCA, Inc., a green agtech company based in Riverside, Calif.

ANN ARBOR, MI -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has registered the first vertebrate pheromone biopesticide for use against the vampiric sea lamprey after decades of research and development.