What is it about?
Imagine controlling insects with non-toxic smells instead of insecticides that kill by definition. That is what we did in New Zealand, residue free apples for export, produced without insecticides.
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Why is it important?
Integrated Pest Management is an important and sustainable approach to controlling insects without reliance on one single tactic, here four pests in one blow !
Perspectives
This paper is a telling of the sex pheromone story of "4-Play" the four species control system: I like a bit of humour in my scientific publications from time to time.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Regulatory Innovation, Mating Disruption and 4-PlayTM in New Zealand, Journal of Chemical Ecology, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-016-0728-5.
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