Trail pheromone of the leaf-cutting ant,Acromyrmex octospinosus (Reich), (Formicidae: Myrmicinae)
J H Cross1, J R West, R M Silverstein
1SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 13210, Syracuse, New York.
Journal of Chemical Ecology
|January 14, 2014
Abstract:
The most active component of the trail pheromone of the leafcutting ant,Acromyrmex octospinosus, is methyl 4-methylpyrrole-2-carboxylate (I). Two pyrazine isomers (II) and (III) are present but inactive.


