n a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species
Daterman knows the pheromone's power from personal experience: "You can take a shower, shave, wash your clothes, and the moths will still find you.
In pursuit of that dream the Monell Center has filed applications for four pheromone patents.
As more and more ants travel to the food source the pheromone track becomes thicker and thicker, attracting more and more ants, who in turn deposit their own pheromones, and so on.
ROI Community Summit links new leaders In 2010, Judith Prays, a 26-year-old multimedia expert from Long Beach, created a great deal of buzz (CNN, Time, “The Colbert Report”) by inventing Pheromone Parties, a matchmaking experiment based on scent.
June 19, 2013 - The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Faking out gypsy moths in SW Virginia Pheromone flakes confuse gypsy moths Pilots were ready to drop specially scented pellets in parts of Southwest Virginia Tuesday. The hope is to slow the spread of the "all- eating' gypsy moth.
June 18, 2013 - WDBJ 7 Roanoke
Thomas Edison in Fresh News It''s like a bell-shaped curve. If (the pheromone level is) too low, it doesnt work. If you add more, you get a nice mating response. If it gets high, the mating response stops and they go into hibernation mode. It makes nice ecological sense that...
Linda B Buck in Howard Hughes Medical Institute Our findings suggest that both odor and pheromone relay areas in the brain are sending pheromone signals to GnRH neurons. Moreover, GnRH neurons, in turn, are sending information back to those relay areas,said Buck. "This surprising...
Michael Majerus in BBC News I'm afraid it's damage limitation now - but hopefully we may be able to develop a pheromone-specific trap,explained Dr Majerus. "They are attracted in large swarms to the same place in winter; we think they do it by scent. If it's a...