Pheromones
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How Do Animals Use Chemicals to Deceive?
Tristram a, how do some animals use this to deceive? So if you rely on chemicals, then you can have illegal signals. And there's a fabulous story about bolus spiders in north america. The female web spider, in this case, er, puts her web into a sticky ball at the end of a long thread,. so it like a bolus, just like the gauchos in south America. She synthesizes, as it were, illegally. She counterfeits the feramon, the female sex feramon of moths. Male moths fly up wind at night, and she detects when they come close by the vibration s as they fly. It gets we
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