Females of the species called rattlebox moths sniff out each other’s male-attracting pheromones and congregate, creating the pheromone-based equivalent of male frogs gathering in a pond to croak a ...

Chewing gum companies might be on to something. At least, as long as you stick to spearmint-flavored gum — and you are a moth. Senior author Coby Schal, an urban entomology professor at North Carolina ...

A bioengineered oilseed plant can produce a moth sex pheromone molecule used to control insect pests. Pheromones are chemical signals that cause a behavioural response in members of the same or ...

Reminiscence of the early days / Wendell L. Roelofs -- Pheromones : reproductive isolation and evolution in moths / Jeremy D. Allison and Ring T. Cardé -- Variation in moth pheromones : causes and ...

Researchers from the UvA and North Carolina State University have identified the specific mixture of pheromone chemicals that male moths use during courtship. The findings provide more detail about ...

A single “sexy” gene could help us combat one of the world’s most destructive fruit pests. By deleting the gene that lets female moths produce their mating scent, colleagues and I created an “unsexy” ...

JOHNSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Communities in Johnson County may have seen white wings fluttering around their lights and around trees. Soon, there may be fewer moths flying around. Many of those moths may ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 99, No. 21 (Oct. 15, 2002), pp. 13621-13626 (6 pages) Mate finding in most moth species involves long-distance ...

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The coddling moth, Cydia pomonella, may seem harmless. But its larvae are a big problem. They burrow into fruit, seal up the hole with “frass” (their own poop), and eat the fruit from the inside out.