Pherosyn Ltd

PheroSyn produces identical copies of nature's own pheromones for use in monitoring and control of pests in agriculture and horticulture. Pheromones are used by insects to communicate and are very species specific, meaning that they can be used to attract specific pest targets without affecting other insects, beneficials or pollinators. Every year we lose...

PheroSyn is developing sustainable pheromone-based solutions to secure the future of our global food supply. Every year, global food production losses from pests and diseases amount to about £182bn, of which about £4bn occurs in the UK. The solution has always been to spray the fields with pesticides. Certainly, these agrochemicals have had their use in p...

Strawberries are one of the most commercially important fruit crops in the UK and are good sources of nutrients including vitamin C. Insect pollination is vital to the production of commercial strawberries and is required to ensure a successful and marketable crop. Over or underpollination can lead to low quality and misshapen fruit that is not suitable f...

Midges are significant global pests of fruit production. Current management of midges is problematic, dominated by application of fossil-fuel based chemical pesticides that impact on beneficial insects and the wider environment detrimentally. In 2018-19 across the UK, over 1.14t of pesticide was applied, often pre-emptively, to an area of 1,034,565 hectar...

Midges and weevils are significant global pests of legume food production. Management of these pests provides a potentially lucrative and growing market in the pest management industry globally, including in the UK, continental Europe, North Africa and North America, where these pest problems are well established. Management of midges and weevils is probl...

The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected UK R&D in the manufacture of speciality chemicals using sustainable green chemistry routes (produced adhering to the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry), including pheromones that are used to manage insect pests affecting UK food production systems. The pandemic has delayed, by several months, PheroSyn's proposed R&...