FAO FIGHTS LOCUSTS WITH SEX DRUG
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLINSECT specialists have isolated a pheromone that locusts emit when they want to be left alone to mate, and claim this could prove a new effective weapon against this destructive species. Whilst the pheromone is clearly useful to the species when they are in their winged mature state, its impact on adolescent wingless 'hopper' locusts makes them vulnerable, says the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), in Nairobi. It says that spraying the pheromone phenylacetonitrile, or PAN, in tiny quantities of 10 millilitres per ...
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