Entomologists obtained and synthesized the pheromone by swabbing various virgin giant hornet queens captured in Yunnan, China. Yasunori Koide via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Since first ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a molecular sponge that soaks up the pheromones of ants and releases them slowly to attract the pests to an insecticide trap. Scientists at the Universities of Bath and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Foragers of many ant species use pheromone trails to guide nestmates to food sources. During foraging, individual workers can also learn the ...