“…Microencapsulated, twist-tie and flake formulations for controlling P. gossypiella have been tested and used, for example, in Egypt (Critchley et al, 1983(Critchley et al, , 1985El Adi et al, 1987;Campion et al, 1989;Critchley, 1991;Moawad et al, 1991), Pakistan (Qureshi et al, 1988;Critchley et al, 1991) and the USA (Shorey et al, 1984;Staten et al, 1987), and shown to reduce pesticide usage. In Israel a twist-tie formulation containing the Earias pheromone has been used successfully for controlling E. insulana (Nakache et al, 1992).…”