About
About ForestPheromone
A semiochemical supplier organised around monitoring programmes rather than around a product list.
What this catalogue is for
The compounds here are the ones that appear in forest and quarantine surveillance programmes: bark beetle aggregation pheromones, the male-produced signal of longhorn beetles, tortricid sex pheromones for budworms and leafrollers, and the clearwing blends used in nurseries and plantations. The catalogue is grouped by pest complex rather than by chemical family, because that is how a programme is specified.
There is no shopping cart. A lure is a specification — compound, isomer, ratio, dispenser, loading — and none of those four can be chosen from a price list. Every order starts with a brief and comes back as a quotation with the grade and the documentation attached.
How we work with a programme
Three kinds of enquiry come in most often. The first is a specification already written: a tender, a protocol, a blend that worked in another country. The second is a species and a stand, with the blend left open. The third is a supply problem — a compound that has become hard to get, a lot that behaved differently from the last one.
Each gets a different answer. The first is quoted line by line. The second is worked out from the target, the trap and the season, then written down before anything is packed. The third is usually a documentation question: what the last lot actually contained, and whether the substitute matches it.
What we are careful about
Isomers. In this catalogue quite a few entries differ only in double-bond geometry, and the difference is the whole point — the wrong isomer in a blend is not a weaker lure, it is a different message. Certificates state composition rather than a single assay figure for that reason.
Claims. Trap density, flight timing and dose all move with region, stand and year. This site describes the logic and the published ranges; it does not present a universal prescription, and the technical desk will say when a question needs local guidance rather than a catalogue answer.
Who the material goes to
Forest services and plant protection organisations running survey and delimitation programmes; university entomology groups working on chemical ecology; nurseries and plantation managers monitoring borers; and the timber trade, where monitoring supports phytosanitary compliance.
Contact
Enquiries go to [email protected] and are answered by the technical desk within two business days. Include the species, the programme size and any deadline — a short brief produces a precise reply.