pheromone
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The group used pheromone lures "which mimic the scent given off by the female moth to attract males" to look for it.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
She has a pheromone - like an energy - which keeps the bees happy.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
“You’re literally managing a pest by preventing it from being born in the first place,” said Haviland of both sterile insect technique and pheromone mating disruption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
Some, such as pheromone composition, directly influence the insect’s preference for partners, ensuring H. elevatus mates mostly with members of its own species and only occasionally with its parent species.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024
The team's first step was to identify the gene in large black chafers for the receptor that reacts to the female pheromone, which has the seductive name L-isoleucine methyl ester, or LIME.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
"This keeps the whole group tight together. It's like Guardiola is the queen bee at Manchester City and has got the right pheromones going through his hive at the moment."
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
It smears the ants’ pheromones, or cuticular hydrocarbons, on itself as a sort of mask.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
When the pioneer Spruce bark beetles find a suitable host tree they release pheromones - chemical signals to attract fellow beetles and establish a colony.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
The returning ants would secrete less pheromones depending on how close the food source was to the nest.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
The stimuli that set them off at the outset, building collectively instead of shifting things about, may be pheromones released when they reach committee size.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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