what are the advantages and disadvantages of Insect sex attractants (pheromones)
2006-09-12 13:11:38 · 4 answers · asked by aj_hefner 1 in Environment
Advantage: If you use pheromones to attract insects that are considered pests (for example, for crops), you don't need to apply insecticides, avoiding environmental pollution.
Disadvantage: Pheromones are more expensive than pesticides. You need a lot of female insects to extract tiny quantities of pheromones. You can also place traps with female insects (alive) to attract male insects, but anyway it is expensive.
2006-09-12 19:51:24 · answer #1 · answered by Sirloin-stock.com 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sex Attractant Pheromones
2016-11-02 00:53:56 · answer #2 · answered by ikeda 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The advantages of the insect sex pheromones was helps to easily locate there opposite sex to reproduce and it also helps as defense mechanism for the threatening enemies that may be caused of their deaths. It also helps to easily detect the mates if the opposite sex are fertile or not. The disadvantage of this some pheromones are considered as obnoxious chemical reaction to the others that may caused of ther deaths or as repellant.
2006-09-14 20:27:47 · answer #3 · answered by Jerry Q 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the best way is to release sterile males. They still release the pheromones and all the mating takes place, but... they're sterile.
2006-09-14 12:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by the_quetzal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋