How to Control Pest by Using Insect Pheromones?
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<strong>How</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Control</strong> <strong>Pest</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Using</strong> <strong>Insect</strong> <strong>Pheromones</strong>?<br />
<strong>Pest</strong> control has always been a headache for all of us. As for the his<strong>to</strong>ry of pest control, it can be<br />
traced back thousands of years. We usually have some solutions <strong>to</strong> control pests. The most<br />
common examples are natural enemies such as cats and mice, geckos and mosqui<strong>to</strong>es, bugs and<br />
frogs. This pest-eliminating solution has the least harm <strong>to</strong> our environment. There is also a<br />
method of poisoning bait, which is a common method of controlling the population of mice and<br />
flies. <strong>Insect</strong>icides are also commonly used <strong>to</strong> control pests, but pesticides can be harmful <strong>to</strong><br />
human health. Now we have a new way <strong>to</strong> control pests - using insect pheromones. Maybe you<br />
will be curious, how <strong>to</strong> control pests <strong>by</strong> using insect pheromones?<br />
First of all, what is insect pheromones?<br />
<strong>Insect</strong> pheromones are trace behavioral regula<strong>to</strong>rs that are released <strong>by</strong> insects and transmitted<br />
as information within or between species. In other words, the insect pheromone is a hormone<br />
substance secreted <strong>by</strong> the insect itself <strong>to</strong> regulate insect behavior, and can also be artificially<br />
synthesized.<br />
And how <strong>to</strong> control pests <strong>by</strong> using <strong>Insect</strong> pheromone?<br />
Since the 1960s, insect pheromone interference has become one of the pest control technologies.<br />
Compared with other methods, insect pheromones are known for their high efficiency,<br />
non-<strong>to</strong>xicity and pollution-free. So this technology can be used indoors and outdoors.<br />
The first method is the trapping method. This method uses a synthetic preparation of sex<br />
pheromones <strong>to</strong> capture male moths and then kill them with viscose or poison. This method can<br />
effectively reduce the reproduction of female moths. For pho<strong>to</strong>tropic pests, a combination of a<br />
sex pheromone preparation and an anti-mite lamp is usually used. The specific method is <strong>to</strong><br />
apply sex pheromone preparation on the <strong>to</strong>p of the lamp and fill the container with an effective<br />
insecticide. This method has proven <strong>to</strong> have a very significant trapping effect.<br />
The second method is the mating disruption. In the place where the pests gather, synthetic sex<br />
pheromone preparations are used <strong>to</strong> disperse the odor of the sexual attractant, so that the male<br />
moth can not distinguish the sexual attractant released <strong>by</strong> the female moth and lose the<br />
direction of the female moth, there<strong>by</strong> destroying the mating between the male and female moth<br />
and achieving the goal of reducing the number of pests.<br />
The third method is <strong>to</strong> induce sterilization, which refers <strong>to</strong> the use of a sex pheromone<br />
preparation in combination with a sterilization agent. The specific method is <strong>to</strong> induce and<br />
concentrate the male moth with the sexual attractant, and then make the hind tarsus of male<br />
moths <strong>to</strong> contact the sterilization agent membrane <strong>to</strong> produce sterilization effect, and then put<br />
the sterilized male moth back in<strong>to</strong> the field <strong>to</strong> mate with the female moth, so that the eggs<br />
produced <strong>by</strong> the female moths cannot be fertilized, so achieving the purpose of pest controlling.<br />
In conclusion, using insect pheromones <strong>to</strong> control pests is achieved <strong>by</strong> reducing the survival rate<br />
and increase the mortality rate of the pests. And the specific method of using insect pheromones<br />
<strong>to</strong> control pests is <strong>to</strong> interfere with the normal growth and development of pests, resulting in
their death or loss of reproductive capacity.