Publications

Between us we have over 200 scientific publications, many in leading international journals.  We are also inventors for four patents. Some selected publications are listed below, in the areas of honeybee repellents, attract-and-kill for moth pests, mirid pheromones and ecology of Helicoverpa in inland Australia:

Honey bee repellents

Del Socorro AP & Gregg PC (2020). Bee repellent.  Australian Patent AU2020256633.  IP Australia http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/applicationDetails.do?applicationNo=2020256633 30pp.

Attract-and-kill for noctuid moths

Gregg PC, Del Socorro AP, Wilson S, Knight KM, Binns MR & Armytage P. (2022) Bisexual attract-and-kill: a novel component of resistance management for transgenic cotton in Australia.  Journal of Economic Entomology 115, 826-834

Gregg PC, Del Socorro AP & Landolt PJ (2018) Advances in attract-and-Kill for agricultural pests: Beyond pheromones.  Annual Review of Entomology 63,453–70.

Gregg PC, Del Socorro AP, Hawes AJ & Binns MR (2016) Developing bisexual attract-and-kill for polyphagous insects: Ecological rationale versus pragmatics. Journal of Chemical Ecology 42, 666-675.

Gregg PC, Del Socorro AP & Binns MR (2016) Non-target Impacts of an attract-and-kill formulation based on plant volatiles: Responses of some generalist predators. Journal of Chemical Ecology 42 676-688.

Mensah RK, Gregg PC, Del Socorro AP, Moore CJ, Hawes AJ & Watts N (2013) Integrated pest management in cotton: exploiting behaviour-modifying (semiochemical) compounds for managing cotton pests. Crop & Pasture Science 64, 763-773.

Gregg PC, Greive KA, Del Socorro AP & Hawes AJ  (2010). Research to realisation: the challenging path for novel pest management products in Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 49, 1-9.

Del Socorro AP, Gregg PC, Alter D & Moore CJ (2010). Development of a synthetic plant volatile based attractant for female noctuid moths. I. Potential sources of volatiles attractive to Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Australian Journal of Entomology 49, 10-20.

Gregg PC, Del Socorro AP & Henderson GS (2010) Development of a synthetic plant volatile based attractant for female noctuid moths. II. Bioassays of synthetic plant volatiles as attractants for the adults of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Australian Journal of Entomology 49, 21-30.

Del Socorro AP, Gregg PC & Hawes AJ (2010)Development of a synthetic plant volatile based attractant for female noctuid moths. III. Insecticides for adult Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 49, 31-39.

 Pheromones for green mirids

Lowor ST, Gregg PC & Del Socorro AP (2009). Sex pheromones of the green mirid Creontiades dilutus (Stal) (Hemiptera: Miridae). International Journal of Agricultural Research 4, 137-145.

Lowor ST, Gregg PC & Del Socorro AP (2009). Potential for pheromone-based attract and kill and mating disruption of the green mirid Creontiades dilutus (Stal) (Hemiptera: Miridae). International Journal of Agricultural Research 4, 153-162.

 Ecology of Helicoverpa spp. in inland Australia

Gregg PC, Del Socorro AP, Le Mottee K, Tann CR, Fitt GP & Zalucki MP (2018) Host plants and habitats of Helicoverpa punctigera and H. armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in inland Australia. Austral Entomology in press.

Gregg PC, Henderson GS, Del Socorro AP, Mottee K & Birchall C (2016) Polyphagy in an uncertain environment: Helicoverpa punctigera in inland Australia. Austral Ecology, 41, 819 - 828.

Gregg  PC, Del Socorro AP & Rochester WA. (2001)  A field test of a model of migration of moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in inland Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 40, 249-256.

.Gregg PC, Fitt GP, Zalucki MP & Murray DAH  (1995) Insect migration in an arid continent. II. Helicoverpa spp. in eastern Australia. In Drake VA & Gatehouse AG (eds.) Insect migration: tracking resources through time and space. Cambridge University Press, pp. 151-172.

Gregg PC (1993) Pollen as a marker for Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) and H. punctigera Wallengren (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) emigrating from western Queensland. Australian Journal of Ecology 18, 209-219.