Sentences with phrase «called sex pheromones»
Many kinds of insect, perhaps most, find their mates by scent, the so - called sex pheromones.
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After conducting a range of different experiments, the researchers discovered that some of the chemicals left behind by the females, called sex pheromones, were largely responsible for keeping the males awake.
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«Right about five o'clock in the afternoon — we call it the rush hour — the beetles climb to the top of the trees and release a sex pheromone that travels on the wind.
«The call of the dung: How flies find their meal: Frass excreted on fruits by vinegar flies contains sex pheromones and invites conspecifics to join the meal.»
When the scientists analyzed the N. vitripennis male sex pheromone, they found it contained two important chemicals, which they call RS and RR.