How Insect Pheromones Identification Works

March 27th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

There are many different insects in the world, and they usually can’t tell another insect apart by simply looking at it. This could be disastrous for the mating system and the ideas of environments of different insects, if it wasn’t for insect pheromones identification. Read the rest of this entry »

Insect Pheromones: Understanding How Nature Works

March 27th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

There are many wonders of nature that we often ignore or simply take for granted. One of the wonders of nature that often goes unnoticed is the ability of insects to communicate among themselves through insect pheromones. Have you even wondered how locusts could travel in swarms like a well organized army? Or have you even wondered how insects know that a female is in heat even the female is located miles away? Read the rest of this entry »

What Insect Pheromone Glands Do

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Pheromones are chemicals made and secreted by living things to send messages, usually to members of their own species. While popular culture makes the most of pheromones that send a mating message, many insects use pheromones to send a variety of messages. In the insect kingdom, insect pheromone glands are very useful to create signals that can communicate to a large community quickly, to communicate over several miles or to mark a specific area as protected or safe. Read the rest of this entry »

Buying Human Pheromones: The Ethical Dilemma

March 20th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Discussions on the possibilities of buying human pheromones have been a subject of many discussions in the past along with the issues of cloning and other forms of substitution of human body parts. Read the rest of this entry »

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