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Pheromones
Manage episode 227740037 series 1301213
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how members of the same species send each other invisible chemical signals to influence the way they behave. Pheromones are used by species across the animal kingdom in a variety of ways, such as laying trails to be followed, to raise the alarm, to scatter from predators, to signal dominance and to enhance attractiveness and, in honey bees, even direct development into queen or worker.
The image above is of male and female ladybirds that have clustered together in response to pheromones.
With
Tristram Wyatt Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford
Jane Hurst William Prescott Professor of Animal Science at the University of Liverpool
and
Francis Ratnieks Professor of Apiculture and Head of the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of Sussex
Producer: Simon Tillotson
1119 episodes
Manage episode 227740037 series 1301213
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how members of the same species send each other invisible chemical signals to influence the way they behave. Pheromones are used by species across the animal kingdom in a variety of ways, such as laying trails to be followed, to raise the alarm, to scatter from predators, to signal dominance and to enhance attractiveness and, in honey bees, even direct development into queen or worker.
The image above is of male and female ladybirds that have clustered together in response to pheromones.
With
Tristram Wyatt Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford
Jane Hurst William Prescott Professor of Animal Science at the University of Liverpool
and
Francis Ratnieks Professor of Apiculture and Head of the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of Sussex
Producer: Simon Tillotson
1119 episodes
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