Research and application progress on efficient and intelligent technologies for insect behavior regulation

The long-term utilizations of chemical pesticides has led to a series of problems such as environmental residues and pest resistance, making it imperative to develop eco-friendly alternative control technologies. Insect behavioral regulators, as an efficient and environmentally friendly monitoring and control approach, play a crucial role in agricultural and forestry pest control. However, the practical efficacy of pheromones, attractants, and repellents is often limited by their volatile and degradable nature. Based on the molecularmechanism of insect olfactory molecules, the progress in materials science, and the current research status of new carriers for insect luring traps, this article focuses on cutting-edge technologies for sustained and controlled release carriers, and reviews the research progress of efficient and precise behavioral regulation methods based on insects behavior regulators. The review explains the neural mechanism of insect olfactory perception, laying a theoretical foundation for the application of insects behavior regulator; the core content lies in reviewing the roles of various carrier technologies in improving the stability and persistence of these regulators such as pheromone, and focusing on the application of the emerging nanofiber electrospinning technology in constructing controllable release carriers, detailing its process principle, fiber topological structure classification, and advantages in achieving programmed release. Additionally, this review constructs a comprehensive evaluation framework covering material morphology, mechanical properties, effective substance release kinetics, environmental resilience, and eco-friendliness, and preliminarily builds a comprehensive performance evaluation model for such new carrier materials. Finally, it also discusses the current deficiencies in the classification of slow-release and controlled-release mechanisms and the absence of a standardized evaluation system, and inspires the future development directions in this field, including the potential of nanofibers as a biological sensor platform for pheromones. This review aims to provide theoretical insights and technical support for the development of a new generation of efficient and sustainable insects behavior regulating control strategies.