What is it about?
Both the adult herbivore and a predator were attracted to the smells from caterpillar feeding.
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Why is it important?
New insect attractants can be used in pest management to reduce reliance on insecticides.
Perspectives
This discovery has a lot of implications for pest management.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Caterpillar-induced plant volatiles attract conspecific herbivores and a generalist predator, Journal of Applied Entomology, January 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jen.12495.
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