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Use of chemical ecology for detection and management of. Parasitoids are often called parasites, but the term parasitoid is more technically correct. At an operational level, behavioural knowledge would help to improve massrearing techniques, evaluate release rates in a given habitat, and predict parasitoid effectiveness against a. Its scope includes the production and chemical characterization of signal molecules, their emission and transmission mechanisms, their detection in recipient organisms, the transduction of these signals, and the neuroendocrinemediated behavioral or developmental responses they evoke. Most parasitoids are wasps, but some flies and a small number of beetles, moths, lacewings, and even one caddisfly.
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