Complex little animals: Insect behavior learnings from real-world consumer environments

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT

Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 214

Presenting Author(s)

Daniel Perry (he/him/his)

Entomologist
Procter & Gamble
Mason, Ohio

Co-Author(s)

EH

Erik Hasenoehrl

Research Fellow
Procter & Gamble
Mason, Ohio
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Anthony Clerc

Procter & Gamble
Mason, Ohio

Developing novel insect control products often requires behavioral efficacy studies. From unexpected confounding variables to choosing the right measure of success, running a useful behavior assay with urban pests can prove to be difficult. As a player in the consumer pest insect control space, it has been necessary for P&G to understand and evaluate complex behaviors in various crawling and flying insect groups.

Various entomological disciplines draw on collective knowledge of insect behavior to enable good experimental design and avoid known pitfalls. We report on insect pest behavior insights P&G has gleaned from multiple years of experiments run in simulated and real-world consumer environments.