Chemical Insect Attractants and Repellents

Chemical Signals as Attractants, Repellents and Aggregation Stimulants

Chemical probes of bacterial signal transduction reveal that repellents stabilize and attractants destabilize the chemoreceptor array.

The signal transduction cascade responsible for bacterial chemotaxis serves as a model for understanding how cells perceive and respond to their environments. Bacteria react to chemotactic signals by migrating toward attractants and away from repellents. Recent data suggest that the amplification of attractant stimuli depends on receptor collaboration: occupied and unoccupied chemoreceptors act...

Insect Repellents and Mosquito Bites Comparative Efficacy of Insect Repellents against Mosquito Bites

Background. The worldwide threat of arthropod transmitted diseased, with their associated morbidity and mortality, underscores the need for effective insect repellents. Multiple chemical, botanical, and “alternative” repellent products are marketed to consumers. We sought to determine which products available in the United States provide reliable and prolonged complete protection from mosquito ...

ENY 277 Insect Attractants and Traps 1

1. This document is ENY-277 (orginally published in Alternatives in Insect Management by the Office of Agricultural Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), one of a series of the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: June 1995. Revised: June 2005. Please v...

Acute toxicity studies with insect attractants.

Acute Toxicity Studies with Insect Attractants. BEROZA, M., INSCOE, M. N., SCHWARTZ, P. H., JR., KEPLINGER, M. L. AND MASTRI, C. W. (1975). Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 31, 421-429. Eight insect attractants and one inhibitor of a sex attractant were tested for acute oral and aerosol inhalation toxicity in rats, for acute dermal toxicity, eye irritation, and primary skin irritation on rabbits, and ...