Iran-Made Pheromone Traps Come to Combat Forestry Pest Insects

Safa Farrokhi, the producer of pheromone traps, told ANA that wood-eating pests in forests can be destroyed by using this product.

Pheromone traps use chemical signals (pheromones) emitted by females to attract a mate.

The traps are most often used in food warehouses and food-processing facilities.

Over the past few years, the wood-eating pest was very common in the country, especially in the forests of Gilan province, she said.

So, I decided to solve the problem using pheromone traps, Farrokhi added.

Sorting through large numbers of insects can be extremely time consuming, and pheromone traps have the advantage of being much more specific than pitfall, sticky, or light traps, reducing the number of incidental insects caught.

The wood-eating pest spends most of its life in the form of worms in the trunk of the trees, and this time lasts for two years, she noted.

“The worm-shaped pest causes a lot of damage to trees, because the worm inside the trunk feeds, causing the tree trunk to weaken, dry or fall.”

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