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Petra van Cronenburg2/2 be found sunbathing on stones, and tree trunks. They love <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> and wander slowly northwards.Gardeners, who don't like them, can prevent nymphae becoming adult by talking to them ... via the pheromones of Abies balsamea wood chips. Their scent, the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Juvabione" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Juvabione</a>, mimicks the juvenile hormone of firebugs. But why should one do this!<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NatureMatchCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatureMatchCuts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReconnectWithNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReconnectWithNature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pheromones</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/interspeciesCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interspeciesCommunication</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/firebugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firebugs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bugstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bugstodon</a>

Petra van Cronenburg1/2 In our <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museum</a>, visitors are often surprised when I show them our housemates, err, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> mates. 😁 These <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/firebugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firebugs</a> are also visitors, enjoying some warm stones. Normally, they live on the lime trees at the church beside the museum. Firebugs feed on fallen lime seeds (and seeds of some other plants) and dead insects. They are no pest. They communicate and gather with the help of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pheromones</a>. Loving heat, they can <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/naturepark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturepark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VosgesDuNord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VosgesDuNord</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mosstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lichenSubscribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lichenSubscribe</a>

PLOS BiologySome bacterial <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/QuorumSensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuorumSensing</a> (QS) systems use oligopeptide pheromones. @AlbertoMarina14 &co show that extracellular proteases yield multiple <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pheromones</a> from tandemly duplicated propeptides, adding complexity to QS responses <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PLOSBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PLOSBiology</a> <a href="https://plos.io/46PGqxl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://plos.io/46PGqxl</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺New findings shed light on how <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BellaMoths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BellaMoths</a> use <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/poison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poison</a> to attract mates <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bella-moths-poison.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bella-moths-poison.html</a>What one genus of showy moths can say about migration, adaptation, and wing pattern <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319726121" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319726121</a>"These day-flying <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> exclusively eat the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/alkaloid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alkaloid</a>-laden leaves and seeds of rattlebox <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plants</a>. They then use the toxin to guard their eggs and deter predators in later life stages. They even use it to make <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pheromones</a> that attract mates."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺The differing olfactory worlds of female and male silk <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moths</a> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-01-differing-olfactory-worlds-female-male.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-01-differing-olfactory-worlds-female-male.html</a> paper by Elisa Schuh et al.: <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2578" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2578</a>"they discovered that the antenna, which is specialized in males to detect female <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pheromones</a>, is particularly sensitive to the scent of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/silkworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#silkworm</a> excrement in females. Components of this scent turned out to be a deterrent for mated females, probably allowing them to avoid competition for their own offspring when laying eggs."

PhoenixSerenity<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Exposure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Exposure</a> to high levels of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ozone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ozone</a> significantly <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/increases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#increases</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MaleMale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaleMale</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/courtship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courtship</a> among <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FruitFlies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FruitFlies</a> while making the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OzoneExposed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzoneExposed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/males" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#males</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LessAttractive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LessAttractive</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/females" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#females</a> finds a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NewStudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewStudy</a> . As <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OzoneLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OzoneLevels</a> rise due to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/industrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#industrial</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollution</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/anthropogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropogenic</a> activities, it can <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#harm</a> a number of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/species" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#species</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a> that rely on <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SexDetermining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SexDetermining</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pheromones</a> to find a suitable mate, it added.<a href="https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-&-biodiversity/amp/ozone-pollution-increases-male-male-courtship-in-common-fruit-flies-study-88281" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-&-biodiversity/amp/ozone-pollution-increases-male-male-courtship-in-common-fruit-flies-study-88281</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#entomology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecological</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmental</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a>

Christina ✅ 🇨🇦 (alt account)I'd been wondering how to attract potential mates, in my third winter of widowhood and staying indoors: I'll try baking these in the evenings and see if the lonelies respond to the aroma like they're female <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/pheromones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pheromones</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Geekhomestead/109429866370784188" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Geekhomestead/109429866370784188</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/cookies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cookies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/peanutbutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peanutbutter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/homemade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homemade</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/baconfat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#baconfat</a>

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