News tagged with attractant pheromones
Entomologists play matchmakers for cerambycid beetles
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Aug 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cerambycid beetles, also known as long-horned beetles, can cause severe damage to standing trees, logs and lumber. How then might they be promptly detected and their numbers swiftly controlled? ...
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How sea slugs fall in love
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Scott Cummins and his colleagues at The University of Queensland have uncovered a potent mix of chemicals which acts like a cross between Chanel No 5 and Viagra—but only if you are a sea slug.
It's in his smell
Mar 03, 2009 |
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A female moth selects a mate based on the scent of his pheromones. An analysis of the pheromones used by the European Corn Borer (ECB, Ostrinia nubilalis), featured in the open access journal BMC Biology, ...
Psychologist explains the neurochemistry behind romance
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 12, 2007 |
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The Beatles' George Harrison wondered in his famous love song about the "something" that "attracts me like no other lover." A University at Buffalo expert explains that that "something" is actually several physical elements ...
Absent pheromones turn flies into lusty Lotharios
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Professor Joel Levine's team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didn't produce certain pheromones, they triggered a sexual tsunami in their University of Toronto Mississauga ...
Smells like bees' spirit
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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Bumblebees choose whether to search for food according to how stocked their nests are, say scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.
Steroids in female mouse urine light up nose nerves of male mice
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Jun 17, 2008 |
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A group of steroids found in female mouse urine goes straight to the male mouse's head, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They found the compounds activate nerve cells in the ...
Enzyme Discovery Could Lead to No Scent, No Sex for Japanese Beetle
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Jun 18, 2008 |
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If a male Japanese beetle is unable to detect the sex pheromone released by a female, he won't be able to locate her and reproduce. UC Davis researchers have discovered how a key enzyme interacts with those pheromones in ...
Prawnography shows captive bred prawns lack lust
Mar 04, 2009 |
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A Queensland University of Technology researcher has filmed hours of prawn "sex tapes" to find out why prawns bred in captivity did not go on to breed well.
Scientists use bed bugs' own chemistry against them
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs' own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs.
Love Bugs: Breakthrough Study of Cockroach Sex
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Feb 13, 2007 |
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Wanted: Mature males looking for a good time. Must have all six legs, strong antennae and love city life. Proclivity to procreate a must. Apply at crack in the bathroom wall, apartment 8B.
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