Sex News
July, 1983
Insect Seduction: Getting the bugs outPheromones, the scent signals that tell insects, animals and maybe humans when a possible sex partner is in the neighborhood, are now being used by U.S. Agricultural Research Service scientists to knock off a couple of common crop pests—cotton bollworms and tobacco budworms. In a plot with shades of Frankenstein and Behind the Green Door, the two insect species are enticed to mate with each other through the use of synthetic pheromones. One of nature's infin...
