
Bug Love vs. Bugs: How Synthetic Pheromones Are Quietly Replacing Pesticides in Your Food—What You Need to Know in 2025
1) First things first: pheromones aren’t “hormones” Hormones act inside an organism. Pheromones are chemical messages released to affect other members of the same species (for pests: “find me and mate”). In crop protection we don’t dose insects with endocrine drugs; we