Advantages of Pheromone Application in Controlling Pests

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PHEROMONE APPLICATION IN CONTROLLING PESTS

1. Introduction

Pest management has become more and more vital issue in the development of agriculture. Traditional pest control tends to apply pesticides to uncovered areas far from where it's needed and make use of it far more than necessary. Nowadays, scientists find a chemical substance from insects and make it applied in pest control, this kind of chemical substance is called pheromones. What are pheromones? Pheromones are the chemical substances that emitted by an organism that influences the behaviour of the same species.

The purpose of this paper is to explain the reasons and methods of using pheromones to control pests to improve the productivity and reduce pesticides usage simultaneously. First, the article will discuss the reasons why the pheromones should be used in pest management. Moreover, it will introduce the application of pheromones. And at the last, the paper will focus on the benefits and problems that will be generated in the procedure of pheromones application.

2. Reasons for Using Pheromones in Pest Control Purpose

2.1 Biological Characteristics of Pheromones

According to definition, pheromones are the class of chemical materials which insects and other organisms release to communicate with other individuals of their own species. Such kind of biological characteristic offer the scientists opportunities and direction to take advantage of the specificity of pheromones to manipulate the behavior of pests effectively. According to thousands of reliable experiments, scientists consider pheromones application as a feasible solution to release the increasing public concern about the massive of toxic pesticides to control insects. Steven J. Seybold & Su...

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