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What are the names of the hormone-like substances that are used in the form of attractants for the purpose of pest control in the vineyard?
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Pheromones
Hormone-like substances (also exohormones, telergones) which, unlike hormones, do not act in the body in the form of odourants or attractants but are released externally. The name comes from phérein = to carry and hormãn = to stimulate. In humans, they play an important role in the reproductive instinct; these are androstenone (sweaty odour of the male armpit), copulins (vaginal secretions) and trimethylamine (fish liquor).
Some of these sexually stimulating "odour attractants" only have an effect on women, others only on men. In insects, pheromones trigger certain actions or social functions. For example, queen bees emit pheromones to their worker bees, which prevent...
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