Container function for load. The company has developed several natural alternatives to commercially-used insecticides. Phero Tech is working with Simon Fraser University's Biology and Chemistry Departments on a way to disrupt the mating pattern of the codling moth by using sex pheromones.
Sex pheromones are a natural chemical produced by female moths to attract a mate.
By applying synthetic sex pheromones to the fruit trees where moths like to mate, natural communication between male and females is disturbed. Male moths waste their energy searching for mates that don't exist, resulting in fewer viable moth eggs and more pesticide-free fruit. Another pesticide-free project is saving the BC forest industry millions of dollars. Harvested lumber sometimes sits in the forest for quite awhile before it makes it to the mill for processing. By spraying the lumber with natural chemical produced by other tree species, the beetles are fooled into thinking their future homes are another undesirable tree species.