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2. Insect pheromones - Wikipedia

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   The agriculture and forestry industries use insect pheromones commercially in pest control using insect traps to prevent egg laying and in practicing the mating disruption. It is expected that insect pheromones can also contribute in this way to the control of insect-borne infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever or African ...

3. Chemical communication in insects - Wikipedia

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   Pheromones can be used instead of insecticides in orchards. Pest insects are attracted by sex pheromones, allowing farmers to evaluate pest levels, and if need be to provide sufficient pheromone to disrupt mating. Chemical communication in insects is social signalling between insects of the same or different species, using chemicals.

4. Pheromone - Wikipedia

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   A pheromone (from Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō) 'to bear' and hormone) is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species. Pheromones are chemicals capable of acting like hormones outside the body of the secreting individual, to affect the behavior of the receiving individuals. [1]

5. Semiochemical - Wikipedia

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   Pheromones are chemicals capable of acting outside the body of the secreting individual to impact the behavior of the receiving individual. [5] There are alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones, sex pheromones, and many others that affect behavior or physiology. [6] Their use among insects has been particularly well documented. In addition ...

6. Trail pheromone - Wikipedia

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   Trail pheromones are semiochemicals secreted from the body of an individual to affect the behavior of another individual receiving it. Trail pheromones often serve as a multi purpose chemical secretion that leads members of its own species towards a food source, while representing a territorial mark in the form of an allomone to organisms outside of their species. [1]

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