With Valentine’s Day just passed, love is in the air, and what better time is there to dive into the fascinating world of animal pheromones? Pheromones are chemical scent molecules released by a ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has registered the first vertebrate pheromone biopesticide for use against the vampiric sea lamprey after decades of research and development.

A Vancouver-based agricultural tech firm is quickly making believers of Canadian farmers with pheromone-based insect control systems that virtually eliminate the need for insecticides. In a two-year ...

Sea lampreys are bad news and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has come up with a new way to deal with the invasive species by registering a mating pheromone as a biopesticide. Called 3kPZS, ...

Researchers have found the first molecular clues about how a group of poorly understood chemical signals, called pheromones, enable mice to distinguish male from female. Researchers have found the ...

Sexually confusing moths has emerged as a way to force the pests out of the wardrobe. In a new pest control treatment, experts lured male moths and covered them in a “perfume” of artificial pheromones ...

The sea lamprey, a serpentine fish that feasts on other fishes’ blood, nearly wiped out the Great Lakes’ native game fish populations in the 1940s. Now, researchers have characterized the primary ...

Cornell University entomologists have unlocked an evolutionary secret to how insects evolve into new species. The discovery has major implications for the control of insect populations through ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...

Gene knockout studies show that pheromones are important in mating and aggression. Researchers have found the first molecular clues about how a group of poorly understood chemical signals, called ...