All around us, insects are speaking to each other: jockeying for mates, searching for food, and trying to avoid becoming someone else's next meal. Some of this communication is easy to spot—like the ...
A group of treehoppers sit on a plant stem in University of Missouri Professor Rex Cocroft's lab. Humans can't hear the vibrations these insects use to communicate with, but Cocroft has been able to ...
Pheromone communication in social insects : sources and secretions / Johan Billen and E. David Morgan -- Cuticle and cuticular hydrocarbons of insects : structure, function, and biochemistry / Gary J.
Papers presented at a symposium, held at the Imperial College in London Sept. 7-9, 1983, sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society of London. Opening remarks / Sir Richard Southwood -- The elements ...
Vibrational communication in insects encompasses the production, transmission and reception of substrate-borne mechanical waves during a wide array of ecological interactions. Insects generate these ...
BEJING , CHINA, May 21, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — A new study has found that air pollution can disrupt insect communication by chemically altering the pheromones ...
Isoprenoid metabolism and the recruitment of the α-domain for insect chemical communication. The mevalonate (MVA) pathway produces two 5-cabon isoprene building blocks isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) ...
Figure 1: Air pollution disrupts pheromone-mediated communication in Plutella xylostella. (A) Mating pairs of P. xylostella on a host plant. (B) Schematic representation of pheromone release by a ...
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