Agrorim
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Pheromones
Living organisms secrete pheromones to help them communicate. Different pheromones have different functions: Sounding an alarm, creating food trails, calling for aggregation, attracting the opposite sex, and more. One pest-control strategy uses insects’ sex pheromones to inhibit mating, preventing female fertilization and laying of eggs that will eventually hatch to harm the crops. Two mechanisms exist for pest-control by pheromones: Mass trapping, where the sex pheromone of a female insect is released from a dispenser to attract, capture and kill the males. Mating disruption, where the female insects’ sex pheromones are released throughout the crop to disrupt the males’ ability to locate them. The pheromone-based pesticides available today have short-term bioactivity. Their application is complex and requires high-cost labor. Agrorim’s delivery platform creates green, pheromone-based pesticides with significant advantages: Long-lasting effectiveness, ease of use and low labor costs. Using the mating disruption method, only one field application at the start of the season protects a crop from the target insect for the entire season. “Pheromat” is currently under development for the mass trapping of olive pests (olive fruit fly, olive moth and jasmine moth) and as well as for other pests (codling moth, false codling moth and tuta absoluta moth).