{"id":16798,"date":"2018-07-26T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16798"},"modified":"2018-07-26T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:06:26","slug":"word-of-the-day-389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/26\/word-of-the-day-389\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Biotremology<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Italian scientists have found a way to control leafhoppers without using chemicals or traps\u2014in fact, their method isn\u2019t even lethal. Using a laser device that picks up on tiny vibrations, researchers recorded the signals that males use to sweet-talk females. Then they attached small devices to plant stems to play back the pulsing noises they captured. It\u2019s effectively shouting over the insects, preventing males from finding mates \u2014 though the sound isn\u2019t audible to human ears. This experiment was also successfully tested on American grapevine leafhoppers.<\/p>\n<p>This trick allowed the researchers to significantly silence males looking to hook up, which could help to deter their spread. It\u2019s a clever method that could have broad implications for the agricultural industry, as more than 195,000 species of insect use vibrational signaling. The technology has emerged from a fairly new field known as <strong>biotremology<\/strong>, the study of vibrational communication in animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of pests that are not treated with environmentally-friendly strategies just because we don\u2019t know their communication system,\u201d says Rachele Nieri, an entomologist who worked on the project, along with two researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Valerio Mazzoni, an agricultural entomologist at the Edmund Mach Foundation. \u201cIf we want to manipulate the behavior of a pest that doesn\u2019t use chemicals, but vibration, we need to know their communication, their language, to be able to disrupt it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2018\/06\/11\/sharpshooter-pissing-flies-protect-vineyards\/#.W1kV5P6YXmh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wine And Whines: Listening To Insect Booty Calls To Preserve Vineyards<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Tony Farah, <em><strong>D-brief<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biotremology: But Italian scientists have found a way to control leafhoppers without using chemicals or traps\u2014in fact, their method isn\u2019t even lethal. Using a laser device that picks up on tiny vibrations, researchers recorded the signals that males use to sweet-talk females. Then they attached small devices to plant stems \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/26\/word-of-the-day-389\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16809,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions\/16809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}