Tactics that manipulate insect behavior are a component of many pest management strategies. Pheromone-based mating disruption is one such tactic widely used in agricultural systems, but few studies have assessed disrupting other mate communication mechanisms, such as acoustic signals. The most destructive pear pest in the Pacific Northwest USA, pear psylla ( Cacopsylla pyricola ) is believed to use acoustic signals to find mat...

European eels ( Anguilla anguilla ) spawn in the remote Sargasso Sea in partial sympatry with American eels ( Anguilla rostrata ), and juveniles are transported more than 5000 km back to the European and North African coasts. The two species have been regarded as classic textbook examples of panmixia, each comprising a single, randomly mating population. However, several recent studies based on continental samples have found s...