pheromone

[ US /ˈfɛɹəˌmoʊn/ ]
[ UK /fˈɛɹəmˌə‍ʊn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species
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How To Use pheromone In A Sentence

  • The endotoxins exuded are cell - wall constituents that are sort of like pheromones or germ sweat. T.S. Wiley: Can Sleep Loss Destroy Your Immune System?
  • In the Pacific Northwest, for example, apple growers adorn their trees with dispensers that saturate the air with the chemical sex attractant, or pheromone, of female codling moths.
  • This paper summarized Ectropis obliqua Prout s biological control researches from the point of mass rearing, pathogenic natural enemy, predator, parasitoid and pheromone.
  • Certainly, few entomologists doubt that the amazingly intricate structure of moths' antennae are specific pheromone detectors.
  • As expected given low levels of wild codling moths, release of sterile males, and treatment with pheromone, there was no detectable codling moth damage in any orchard.
  • In most species, the pheromones act as attractants and sexual stimulants.
  • The premise is a cynical, even nihilistic one: people are the sum of their biological impulses, slaves to genes, pheromones, and the archipallium. "Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
  • And a seemingly never-ending procession of leafcutter ants tack diagonally across the next spot in the trail on a pheromone-driven mission to and from their monolithic anthills.
  • Pheromones, looks and our own learned predispositions for what we look for in a mate play an important role in whom we lust after, as well.
  • A pheromone's destination is a special organ called the volmeronasal organ, which humans now lack.
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