What is it about?
Trail pheromone disruption of Argentine ants represents a potentially interesting and useful new tactics to add to integrated pest management of the ants and the pests they farm.
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Why is it important?
This work looked at the Agentine ant trail pheromone disruption that could be achieved with long ropes deployed in vineyards for the first time.
Perspectives
Anything we can do to manage pests with semiochemicals is worth a look.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: The Long-Term Effects of Reduced Competitive Ability on Foraging Success of an Invasive Pest Species, Journal of Economic Entomology, June 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/jee/tow131.
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