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THE development of insects resistant to chemical pesticides has created a strong need for optical traps to control populations of economically important insects. But first it is necessary to understand their response to electromagnetic radiation. In 1968 preliminary tests indicated that pulsed coherent radiation of 337 µm wavelength might be attractive to insects. We have now made a behavioural and theoretical study of this phenomenon, using the fall army worm (Spodoptera frugiperda), the corn earworm (Heliothis zed), the Indian meal moth (Plodia inter-punctella) and the codling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella).
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ELDUMIATI, I., LEVENGOOD, W. Submillimetre Wave Sensing of Nocturnal Moths. Nature 233, 283–284 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233283a0
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