Sentence examples for pheromone trails from inspiring English sources

"We know these today as pheromone trails".

There are moths here that can follow pheromone trails to potential mates across 8km of intervening ground.

"Most of what we know about caterpillar communication is chemical," he said, like the pheromone trails that social caterpillars use to lead others to good sources of food.

They lay pheromone trails that their sisters can follow, and the man who first researched these invisible tramlines, EO Wilson, proposed that a single microgram of pheromone, if laid with maximum efficiency, would be enough to send billions of ants three times round our planet.

"Never!" Certain species of ants and tent caterpillars — which rely on pheromone trails to find food and find their way back to the nest — have been known to accidentally form circular trails and follow them until they fall dead from exhaustion.

The high temperatures of the Sahara preclude navigation through the use of the pheromone trails that aid many ant species in returning to their nests; the volatile chemicals in the pheromones would evaporate far too quickly in the heat for them to demarcate routes reliably.

Update the pheromone trails using (7).

This rule takes into account pheromone trails and acquired knowledge.

They could not be following the pheromone trail, as that was enclosed in the tube.

When an ant finds food, she takes it back to the nest, leaving behind a pheromone trail that will attract others.

While the pheromone trail helps the male to decide if a female should be wooed, it provides no clues as to which of her two orifices are free.