Keeping Ahead of the Wolf: Pest Resistance to Agricultural Pesticides

complex behavioral sequence that allows it to arave at the source of the odorous plume. Studies on the effect of various neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have shown that odor perception and response periodicity is greatly influenced by several biogenic amines. Further studies on the effect of agonists (a chemical substance capable of combining with a nervous receptor and initiating a reaction), antagonists (a chemical that acts within the body to block its nervous receptor), and related pharmacological agents on the action of these biogenic amines could lead to a new way of "jamming the receiver" and, thus, a new approach to the mating disruption technique. The manipulation of a communication system that is as basic to the insect's survival as the sex pheromones requires an indepth knowledge of the whole communication system, from whole-body behavior to the molecular level Keeping Ahead of the Wolf: Pest Resistance to Agricultural Pesticides