Animals Sense of Smell

摘要

Odors that induce psychological orbehavioral changes in the same species——fright in a catfish^2,sexual arousal in abull—are called pheromones^3.And nowheredo such odors have more profound aneffect than among the bees,wasps,ants,and termites^4:Pheromones are the chemicalmessages that these insects use to organizetheir complex societies.The queen honeybee preserves hermonarchy^5 by exuding^6 an odor thatnhibits worker bees from laying eggs