pheromone

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This reduces her ability to lay eggs and also lowers her production of methyl oleate, a pheromone that normally signals to workers that she is healthy.

From Science Daily

The team needed just a small subset of ants to blaze the path; when the first ants returned from the foraging area, they would leave a pheromone trail that their sisters could follow.

From New York Times

Take for example Ophrys sphegodes, the early spider orchid, which has flowers resembling a spider's abdomen, but also reproduces the sex pheromones of certain mining bees.

From Salon

Cats are well served by placing diffusers with calming pheromones around a facility or playing certain music.

From Washington Post

Others rely so heavily on scent that ones that lose track of a pheromone trail march in a circle, until dying of exhaustion.

From Washington Post