Tag: red flour beetles

red flour beetle on long-lasting insecticide netting

Insecticide Netting Could Keep Beetles Out of Your Breakfast Cereal

A new study shows that long-lasting insecticide netting could have promising applications in stored-product facilities to protect foods like wheat, corn, and soybeans from insect pests.

Entomology Today July 17, 2018 10 Comments

Discovery May Lead to “Anti-Viagra” for Insects

Kansas State University entomologists have helped identify a neuropeptide named natalisin that regulates the sexual activity and reproductive ability of insects. Using a genetic tool called RNA interference, or RNAi, […]