... depends on social role and signal intensity. Honey bee Alarm pheromone Drone Semiochemicals Associative learning Social communication Social structures rely on communication between individual members of a group ( Alaux et al., 2010 ; Johnson and Linksvayer, 2010 ). Group level...

... complementary processes. In natural situations, the alarm predominantly attracts soldiers, which actively search for the source of a disturbance. Laboratory testing revealed that the frontal gland of soldiers produces a rich mixture of terpenoid compounds including an alarm pheromone. Extensive testing led...