Behavioral interactions of bed bugs with long-lasting pyrethroid-treated bed nets: challenges for vector control by Christopher C. Hayes, Coby Schal

“…Conditioned paper is a section of file folder paper that has been exposed to bed bugs and has been impregnated with feces and aggregation pheromone; it is attractive to aggregation-seeking fed bed bugs. …”
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Characterizing eastern spruce budworm’s large-scale dispersal events through flight behavior and stable isotope analyses by Felipe Dargent, Felipe Dargent, Jean-Noël Candau, Kala Studens, Kerry H. Perrault, Megan S. Reich, Clement Pierre Bataille, Clement Pierre Bataille

“…We used an automated pheromone trap system to collect individuals at six different sites in eastern Canada within and outside the current outbreak area of budworm moths. …”
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Dieback of pine stands in Eastern Polissya: distribution, consequences, measures to overcome by Anatoly Zhezhkun, Ihor Porohnyach

“…To determine the species composition, population indices, and population density of stem insects in the dieback foci, periodic decadal assessments were carried out in the exposed pheromone traps and in different parts of the stem of model trees according to entomological research methods. …”
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An improved medium for in vitro studies of female reproduction and oviposition in Schistosoma japonicum by Yanmin You, Xu Chen, Lele Huo, Longlong Chen, Gongwen Chen, Mengjie Gu, Cun Yi, Jipeng Wang, Wei Hu

“…Importantly, we successfully identified the presence of the pheromone β-alanyl-tryptamine (BATT) in S. japonicum, previously identified in S. mansoni, highlighting its conserved role in schistosome reproductive development. …”
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Identification of summer nectar plants contributing to outbreaks of Mythimna separata (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in North China by Pei GUO, Gao-ping WANG, Li-jie JIN, Xing-qi FAN, Han-lin HE, Pei-wen ZHOU, Xian-ru GUO, Wei-zheng LI, Guo-hui YUAN

“…The flowers of chaste tree opened day and night and M. separata moths were found actively flying around and resting on tree. (2) Identification of moth-borne pollen by scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) micrographs in 2015 and 2016 revealed that 15.4% of 369 moths trapped by blacklight traps, 17.1% of 557 moths captured by vertical-pointing searchlight traps and 24.4% of 311 moths caught by pheromone traps were found with pollen attached to their proboscis. …”
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Acoustic courtship songs in males of the fruit fly Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae) associated with geography, mass rearing and courtship success by R.D Briceño, Ma. del Refugio Hernández, Dina Orozco, Paul Hanson

“…An unexpected result was not observing pulses during pheromone deposition in wild males from Costa Rica. …”
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PREDICTING THE EMERGENCE OF CORN ROOTWORM (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte) IN ESTERN SLAVONIA by Dražen Đoić

“…Hybrid corn OSSK 552 was sown in four repetitions at both sites. Cages and pheromone traps were placed in order to estimate the first day of corn rootworm emergence (the biofix) and to monitor the total population number. …”
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Unraveling the Pathobiological Role of the Fungal KEOPS Complex in Cryptococcus neoformans by Yeseul Choi, Eunji Jeong, Dong-Gi Lee, Jae-Hyung Jin, Yee-Seul So, Seong-Ryong Yu, Kyung-Jo Lee, Yoonjie Ha, Chi-Jan Lin, Ying-Lien Chen, Jun Bae Park, Hyun-Soo Cho, Anna F. Averette, Joseph Heitman, Kyu-Ho Lee, Kangseok Lee, Yong-Sun Bahn

“…Supporting its pleiotropic roles, transcriptome analysis revealed that the CnKEOPS complex governs several hundreds of genes involved in carbon and amino acid metabolism, pheromone response, and ergosterol biosynthesis. Therefore, this study provides novel insights into the fungal KEOPS complex that could be exploited as a potential antifungal drug target.…”
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