Daily Archives: February 19th, 2008

Ask an Entomologist: Sex Pheromones and mating disruption

As tiny animals that live widely dispersed, finding a partner of the proper sex and species to reproduce with is a problem for insects. How do they arrange a hook up?
Insects have solved that problem in a variety of ways, but sexual pheromones are one of the most common solutions. Pheromones are [...]