Sex Pheromone Aerosol Devices for Mating Disruption: Challenges for a Brighter Future

Pheromone-mediated mating disruption (MD) represents an important tool to manage insect pests in agriculture and forestry. MD relies on the release of synthetic sex pheromones from dispensers in crops, interfering with mate finding and reproduction of a pest through both competitive and non-competit...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Benelli, Andrea Lucchi, Donald Thomson, Claudio Ioriatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-09-01
Series:Insects
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/10/10/308