Source: PHY.ORG, 8/20/18


For stink bugs to attract a mate or to communicate that they have found food, they use their own chemical language: pheromones.
Virginia Tech researchers have discovered insights into this chemical language, which can be used to develop alternative pest controls. "We have gained a deeper understanding of how stink bugssynthesize pheromones, and this knowledge may allow us to produce pheromones in expendable food crops—also called 'trap crops' - to lure the bugs away from cash crops," said Dorothea Tholl, a professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

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