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Sex pheromone of queens of the slave-making ant, Polyergus breviceps
Les Greenberg1, Ali Aliabadi, J Stephen McElfresh
1Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. les.Greenberg@ucr.edu
Journal of Chemical Ecology
|August 12, 2004
Abstract:
The sex attractant pheromone produced in mandibular glands of queens of the slave-making ant Polyergus breviceps has been identified as a blend of methyl 6-methylsalicylate and 3-ethyl-4-methylpentanol. In field trials, each compound alone was completely unattractive to males, whereas blends of the two compounds attracted hundreds of males within a couple of hours.

