If you're outside enjoying the spring sunshine, then chances are, ticks are too. However, new research from Simon Fraser University (SFU) suggests the use of ant pheromones as a topical repellent, or ...

Are you going for a hike? Don’t forget your bottle of ant musk. A new scientific study suggests that some species of ticks—those Lyme Disease-spreading creepy crawlies—are scared off by pheromones ...

From Formic Acid and Pheromones to Peppermint Insect RepellentWhen walking along a path, you might sometimes see a line of ...

The world’s first transgenic ants have olfactory sensory neurons that flash green in response to odorants. Ants navigate their richly aromatic world using an array of odor receptors and chemical ...

The mechanism by which ants find and carry away "sweets (food)" such as sugar or sweet snacks in orderly lines is primarily ...

In the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi), workers in a colony alternate between caring for larvae and laying eggs in a coordinated cycle. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology ...

Pheromone communication in social insects : sources and secretions / Johan Billen and E. David Morgan -- Cuticle and cuticular hydrocarbons of insects : structure, function, and biochemistry / Gary J.

When the British entomologist John Sudd emigrated to Nigeria in the 1950s to conduct research at University College, Ibadan, he found plenty to study in his own abode. Like most dwellings in the ...

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