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Insect Attractants

Attract and Kill

Bioglobal’s kairomone products are innovative insect attractants designed to lure adult insects to baited food sources. When integrated with pesticide use or with insect traps, these products effectively eliminate adult insects, which in turn reduce the number of eggs and larvae and minimize damage to crops.

Kairomone Based Products

Bioglobal's flagship kairomone based product is BioAttract-heli, it is a broadacre sprayable attractant and feeding stimulant bait product that can be used by growers of maize, cotton, soybean, groundnuts, sorghum, sugarcane, tobacco and potato to manage noctuid moth infestations.  This product has demonstrated robust and consistent attraction for 32 specific pests, with the capability to potentially lure 46 additional varieties.

Close up of a moth on a flower.

Bioglobal also has kairomone-based lures which can be used for both monitoring and controlling purposes These lures generally have longer duration of field activity than the sprayable formulations.

A Kairomone based lure hanging from a tree.

*The sale or use of Bioglobal pheromone or kairomone based products including but not limited to BioAttract-heli is subject to the registration or registration exemption granted or to be granted by the relevant local government regulatory agency, the detailed information of such registration or registration exemption should be consulted with Bioglobal .

How do Insect Attractants Work?

Moth on a leaf with Bioglobal green insect attractant solution.

Moths attracted by the mixture of kairomones, feed on the mixture like a bait and then are neutralized by a suitable insecticide that is added to the mixture prior to application to the host crop.

Moths on a plant after being attracted by mixture.

Kairomones are semiochemicals that evoke a behavioral (releaser effect) or physiological response (primer effect) in the receiver of the signal that is adaptively favorable to the receiver but not the emitter.

Female moths can lay over 500 to 1,500 eggs during their fertile period. By killing moths before they can lay their eggs, the number of eggs and larvae in the crop will be greatly reduced and hence able to achieve an increased control level.

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