Know your enemy. It’s a piece of advice as important to those fighting pests in a walnut orchard as to those on any battlefield. It takes on added importance when the pests at hand are the codling ...

The ghost moth is common in grassland, so any crop following a grass ley is most vulnerable to attack Lettuce is especially vulnerable to damage from the common swift moth Adult common swift moths ...

Aldehyde oxidases (AOXs) are common detoxifying enzymes in several organisms. In insects, AOXs act in xenobiotic metabolism and as odorant-degrading enzymes (ODEs). These last appear as crucial ...

Any pea crop in flower or in pod in June or July can be attacked Risk is greater where there has been severe damage in previous crops. Control may only be justifiable in these cases Early maturing and ...

This spring residents in the Thompson-Okanagan region are finding and photographing a variety of large moths that are native to North America, and the size of some of these moths are impressive. The ...

AN ELUSIVE species of moth once believed to be extinct in Britain has been discovered at a Warwickshire country park. Rangers at Ryton Pools Country Park have uncovered the presence of the Dusky ...

Abstract: This paper presents a method of designing and optimizing a single chemical sensor-based source identification algorithm, derived from moth-inspired chemical plume tracing (CPT) strategies.