Insects' Sex Scents Can Save Lives

Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 00:35 in Biology & Nature

By identifying and also finding methods to prepare the substances, pheromones, that certain insects secret either to attract to them other individuals of the same species, potential sex partners, or to warn each other about enemies, scientists can save many human lives primarily in the third world.

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