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Publication Date: 2005-Jun
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Honeybees Use Pheromone to Delay Behavioral Maturation
King, Angela G.
Journal of Chemical Education, v82 n6 p812 Jun 2005
The GC-MS profiles of whole body extracts from the nurses and foragers of Apis mellifera ligustica bees was compared, which showed that the extracts of foragers (older bees) contained levels of ethyl oleate (EO) almost three times than found in nurses (young bees). The results show that the ethyl oleate plays a key role in the bees' mechanism of social organization.
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