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Pheromone Monitoring
What are Pheromones?
Insects use certain chemical scents to communicate. These chemicals
were first discovered over 100 years ago by entomologists who captured
female moths in boxes & placed them near an open window, only to find
male moths of the same species aggressively attracted to this window.
Man has competed with insects since he has been on this planet & will
continue to do so as long as he exists. What a human being posses in
intelligence, insects overcome with persistence, reproductive capacity,
size & adaptability. Insects know how to survive. Some insect species
have been on this planet for over 300 million years. Stored product
insects are the most damaging insects because they feed upon products
that have been grown, harvested, & many times gone through processing
stages, packaging stage, marketing stage, transportation stage & finally
the storage stage.
Products that become infested have to be discarded,
causing huge financial losses.
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