About the Authors

Dirk Louis P. Schorkopf

Dirk.Louis.Research@outlook.com

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Unit of Chemical Ecology, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Alnarp, Sweden

Christos G. Spanoudis

Affiliations Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Unit of Chemical Ecology, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Alnarp, Sweden, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Applied Zoology and Parasitology, Thessaloniki, Greece

Leonard E. G. Mboera

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Agenor Mafra-Neto

Affiliation ISCA Technologies Inc., Riverside, California, United States of America

Rickard Ignell

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Unit of Chemical Ecology, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Alnarp, Sweden

Teun Dekker

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Unit of Chemical Ecology, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Alnarp, Sweden

Competing Interests

AMN is employed with commercial company (ISCA technologies) that owns the rights to the wax emulsion formulation SPLAT. The following authors declare no conflict of interest: DLPS, CGS, LEGM, RI, TD. All authors declare that ISCA technologies did neither suggest, discourage nor encourage or influence the design, interpretation, execution or publication of any experiment conducted for or within the present study.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DLPS AMN TD RI. Formal analysis: DLPS. Funding acquisition: DLPS TD. Investigation: DLPS CGS. Methodology: DLPS TD. Project administration: DLPS. Resources: DLPS LEGM AMN RI TD. Supervision: TD RI DLPS. Validation: DLPS CGS RI TD. Visualization: DLPS. Writing – original draft: DLPS TD. Writing – review & editing: DLPS TD CGS LEGM AMN RI.