Sentences with phrase «use of pheromones»

While we can provide you with as much advice as possible about the correct use of pheromones and how to create an enriched environment, sometimes a medical check with your vet to rule out concomitant health problems is required, as is seeking the help of a qualified behaviourist.

REDUCING ANXIETY To reduce anxiety during training the use of pheromones, which are naturally produced chemicals, may help.

She returned to UC Davis to obtain her MPVM, during which time she conducted research on the use of pheromones to decrease stress and upper respiratory tract disease in shelter cats.

What Puss is actually doing is marking you as a member of her family with the use of pheromones that are released from her scent glands.

The use of pheromones as sexual signals appears to be the ancestral condition in fireflies with the use of luminous sexual signals as being a more recent development.

The use of pheromone sprays on furniture or into the air in your living room can sometimes placate territorial or bored behaviors.

He is a Professor of Veterinary Behavioural Medicine at the University of Lincoln, and a pioneer in the use of pheromone therapy within the field of clinical animal behaviour.

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• substances on EPA List 3 — Inerts of Unknown Toxicity; allowed only for use in passive pheromone dispensers.

(iii) Inert ingredients that are exempt from the requirement of a tolerance under 40 CFR 180.1122 — for use only in passive pheromone dispensers.

Researchers have tried lamprey - specific poisons to control their numbers, but more out - of - the - box ideas include using artificial lamprey pheromones to lure them to their doom, and designing a birth control drug that would only affect female lampreys.

The desert ant (left), the buff - tailed bumblebee (centre) and the common wasp (left) all use the same class of pheromone to stop workers from reproducing.

Within the review, a three - phase reintroduction protocol for reducing conflict between cats in a household is described; examples of environmental enrichment for improving welfare by increasing the physical, social and temporal complexity of the environment are provided; and the use of a synthetic analogue of the feline facial pheromone is recommended.

Researchers working on the Ribeirão Preto campus of the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that a bacterium found in the microbiota associated with leafcutter ant species Atta sexdens rubropilosa produces the so - called «trail pheromones,» i.e, the aromatic chemical compounds used by the ants to lay a trail to their nest.

The adult fireflies of some species are not luminous at all, however, and instead use pheromones to locate mates.

Using microelectrodes, the researchers recorded the electrical activity of pheromone - sensitive interneurons in male American cockroaches that relay signals of female - producing sex pheromones in the antennal lobe (functional homolog to the mammalian olfactory bulb) to higher - order centers.

In addition, the team found that some of the beetle species that used the same pheromone stayed true to their species by segregating their mating activity by season of the year.

The scientists write in their paper that if an invasive species used the same pheromone as a complex of native species, the chemicals emitted by the natives might prevent the invaders from finding suitable mates.

The scientist have used this new method to figure whether three species of yellow jackets (the western yellow jacket, the common yellow jacket and the German yellow jacket) have alarm pheromones, and whether each species is able to recognize each of the alarm pheromones of the rest.

One way the social wasps have found to increase the efficiency of their defence is through chemical signals, called alarm pheromones, which are used to rouse the colony to action and mark intruders for attack.

Using pheromones can also reveal the presence of destructive invasive species such as the Asian longhorned beetle.

In a crucial test of their sensor, the researchers used higher levels of fungal pheromones than those normally found in patient blood or urine samples.

This visualization is based on the foraging behavior of the seed harvesting ant P. barbatus, a species which does not use pheromone trails for finding food.

Dorigo showed that he could obtain near - optimal routes by using artificial ants that are tweaked so that the concentration of pheromone they deposit varies with the overall distances they have traveled.

On the other hand, if the agent went quickly from one node to another, it would reinforce the use of that path by leaving a lot of «pheromone» — that is, by increasing the appropriate scores substantially.

The researchers hypothesize that the ants use chemical signals called pheromones to determine when the nest has the right proportion of soldiers to other workers.

They used bat detectors and insect pheromone traps to monitor nightly bat activity, as well as the abundance of the corn earworm moth — a tasty treat for bats and also one of the world's most destructive crop pests.

He explained that other studies have explored the possibility of using the synthetic pheromone (Z)-9-hexadecenal for Argentine management program.

If people use a similar system, we may not be completely shut out of the pheromone game.

«Termites appeared some 150 million years ago while the social Hymenoptera appeared about 100 million years ago, so this discovery of a hydrocarbon as a royal - recognition pheromone in termites appears to predate its use in social insects,» Schal said.

Schal said that the study upends the commonly held belief that queens of the insect order Hymenoptera — ants, bees and wasps — were the first to use these wax - like hydrocarbon pheromones for royal recognition.

The second part of the study introduced Feliway ®, a domestic cat pheromone used in cat behavior therapy.

Some of the key genes produce waterborne pheromones, used by the barnacles to attract each other, which allows them to attach to surfaces close to each other where they will be able to mate.

NC State entomologist Coby Schal and NC State and University of Amsterdam colleagues wanted to learn more about the sexual signaling efforts used by moths, a diverse group of insects with well - identified sex pheromones.

In Adelaide, Professor Mike Tyler is exploring the possibility of using pheromones (e.g., sex - attractant chemicals) to help in toad - trapping.

Lab manager Abigail at Pheronym is explaining how biocontrol works for agricultural pest control and how Pheronym uses pheromones from microscopic roundworms to improve the efficacy of commercially available beneficial nematodes for insect control.

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Instead of «oakey,» «crisp,» and «tannic,» however, Pheromone Party attendees use descriptions like «hint of onion» and «strange scent of Play - Doh.»

While some of these explications may have a basis in legitimate scientific studies, others feel suspiciously vague and circular in their reasoning, using terms like «dopamine» and «pheromones» as hand - waving «proof» that women are hard - wired to do things like gossip and fall in love at first sight.

This pheromone mimics the soothing smell given off by nursing mothers, and it's so effective that we used it for the cover shoot of Your Cat: The Owner's Manual to help our feline models relax and get along.

You can also take advantage of a number of recent developments in pest control that use natural pheromones and chemicals of low toxicity and little residual action to control insects.

By using special handling techniques, tasty treats, feline and canine pheromones, and soft music, we have had amazing results in calming many of our nervous patients.

The use of calming pheromones also helps ease fear in dogs and cats.

Providing nonslip surfaces for pets to stand on, incorporating calming scents and / or pheromones, minimizing noises and using calming sounds, using LED lighting instead of fluorescent lighting, and using disinfectants with very little odor can help create a veterinary «spa» atmosphere to relax and calm not only dogs and cats, but also people.

Some of these practices include: using special techniques during examinations, using the cat pheromone product Feliway ® in exam rooms, using specific medical devices for exams and surgeries that are special to cats, avoiding «scruffing» the animal during the exam, teaching clients about stress - free vet visits and using their pet carrier properly and many other useful tips for cat owners.

It is designed to calm and relax the puppies, and a synthetic form of the pheromone has been successfully used to treat anxiety related disorders in adult dogs.

Sometimes using one of these drugs in combination with dog appeasing pheromone is enough to get a stressed dog eating.

The pheromone provides a convenient alternative to diffusers which are limited for use in the confines of a designated room.

Pheromone therapy uses synthetic forms of pheromones to alleviate phobias and stress in animals.

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Chemical stress relief for cats The authors briefly touch on the use of some chemical stress relievers like medications, pheromones and aromatherapy.