Entomologists obtained and synthesized the pheromone by swabbing various virgin giant hornet queens captured in Yunnan, China. Yasunori Koide via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Since first ...

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Shallow-water imperial cone snails collected for the study were generally larger than the snails collected in deeper water, suggesting they may be separate species. Photo by Samuel S. Espino There are ...

There are two things life can’t get enough of: mating and eating. In a perfect, yet twisted, display of that fact, a team of scientists says it’s discovered that the imperial cone snail uses fake ...

Lots of animals have secret chemicals designed to ensnare potential mates. Humans might have them, too — but we have no idea what they are or how they work. These chemicals (called “pheromones”) are ...

UC Riverside scientists have a new chemical weapon to seduce and kill the invasive, long-nosed beetles destroying California palm trees by the tens of thousands. The weapon involves a pheromone ...

North Carolina State University researchers have shown that adding a small amount of a chemical used in perfumes – nonanal – to a two-chemical combination of other sex pheromones helped increase the ...