Females of the species called rattlebox moths sniff out each other’s male-attracting pheromones and congregate, creating the pheromone-based equivalent of male frogs gathering in a pond to croak a ...

If you have ever pulled a favourite warm jumper out of storage, only to find it riddled with tiny insect-sized holes, you will know the damage moths can cause. Most of us are none the wiser to their ...

Pheromones are in the air — perhaps more than usual. Coined by Peter Karlson and Martin Lüscher in 1959, “pheromones” refers to a class of naturally secreted chemicals said to emit olfactive signals ...

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During courtship, adult male plethodontid salamanders transfer protein pheromones that augment female receptivity. The majority of plethodontid species apply pheromones transdermally (to the female's ...

If you remove deodorant, perfume and the smell of washed clothes, all of us give off a unique and distinctive scent - especially when we're on the lookout for a mate. Previous studies have found ...

Pheromones are chemicals that animals produce to change the behavior of another animal of the same species. Many species use these chemicals to communicate information about the location, sexual, and ...

The saying goes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But attraction is based on more than love at first sight. When we feel chemistry with another person, it may be thanks to one of our chemical ...

Through a series of odor preference and sexual activity tests, the response of male western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, to female odors was investigated. Male mosquitofish prefer female odors to ...