What is it about?
Mass trapping or mating disruption - which will work better ? Insects without habituation to sex pheromone like gall midges and mealybugs may be better suited to mass trapping.
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Why is it important?
This knowledge can save a lot of wasted time in trying things which are less likely to work.
Perspectives
This area of insect behavioural control outside the Lepidoptera has received too little attention so far.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: With or without pheromone habituation: possible differences between insect orders?, Pest Management Science, February 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ps.4828.
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