Professor North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota
Several highly effective pheromone-based strategies have been developed and implemented to mange shoot feeding insects and bark beetles in forests. Efforts to develop similar treatments for other species have met with limited or no success. Comparing across species, the most successful pheromone-based treatments have been developed for species which cause economic/ecological impacts at relatively low densities. It is unlikely that pheromone-based strategies will be successful for species which reach extraordinarily high densities. Development of effective pheromone-based strategies will most likely result in cases where the population density/dynamics and insect behavior are considered a priori.
