Pests That Directly Afflict Humans or Animals

Pests That Directly Afflict Humans or Animals 

Pheromones have been identified and field-tested in only a few of the host of pests that directly afflict man or animals. 

Muscalure (318), a weakly attractant pheromone of the common housefly, has been registered with the EPA (in fact, it is the only registered pheromone to date) and is available in a bait (Zoecon Corp.) containing sugar, a pesticide and the attractant. Both sexes are attracted in field use (animal barns), and enhanced catches of up to sevenfold over control traps have been reported (618, 619). 

The sex attractant of several tick species have been identified, but only three examples of attempts to apply the attractant have come to our attention. Sonenshine has demonstrated (620) mating disruption by dusting a tick-infested dog with a microencapsulated formulation of the pheromone, 2,6-dichlorophenol the ticks used were the dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, and the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni. Gladney (621) applied a mixture of pesticide and male extract to a shaved area on the shoulders of cattle and found that the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyoma maculatwn) could be attracted to the spots and killed 

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