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alarm pheromone: a standalone construct

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alarmpheromone1 CONSTRUCTAlarm pheromoneBOCH ET AL. · 1962

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Chemical ecology of bees

The scent that calls bees to defend and sting

The honey bee alarm pheromone is the scent released near the sting when a bee is disturbed or stings, which recruits and excites nestmates to defend the colony and marks the target for further stinging. Boch, Shearer and Stone's 1962 work identified isoamyl acetate as an active, banana-smelling component of this sting pheromone, one of the first such identifications in bees. The referent is the defensive chemical signal and the alarm response it triggers, studied by identifying its components and by measuring how they raise colony aggression.[1]

Unit
A volatile signal that triggers colony defence and stinging
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Characterised by chemical identification of its components and by behavioural assays of the defensive and stinging response it provokes

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References

  1. Boch, R., Shearer, D. A., & Stone, B. C. (1962). Identification of iso-amyl acetate as an active component in the sting pheromone of the honey bee. Nature, 195(4845), 1018–1020. https://doi.org/10.1038/1951018b0

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