ARDECO is a distributed Chemical Ecology infrastructure aimed at developing new solutions for the biocontrol of crop pest insects. It includes 4 academic partners, 5 technical institutes and 3 private companies. It will identify the nature and conditions of use of naturally occurring volatile organic compounds that play a key role in the behavior of insect pests. It will equip the French scientific community with research platforms and direct and inverse chemical ecology methods and tools to accelerate the research, development and deployment of biocontrol solutions to reduce farmers' dependence on pesticides.