Techniques for studying honeybee pheromones involved in clustering, and experiments on the effect of Nasonov and queen pheromones

Ferguson, A., Free, J., Pickett, J. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8386-3770 and Winder, M. 1979. Techniques for studying honeybee pheromones involved in clustering, and experiments on the effect of Nasonov and queen pheromones. Physiological Entomology 4 (4) , pp. 339-344. 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1979.tb00625.x

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Abstract

Techniques for investigating pheromones responsible for clustering in Apis mellifera are described. Stable queenless clusters were formed in response to synthetic Nasonov pheromone mixed with (E)-9-oxo-2-decenoic acid. This mixture plus the addition of (E)-9-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid was less potent in initiating cluster formation than it was without this addition, but the clusters once formed sometimes grew larger. Other unknown components from the queen's mandibular glands encouraged cluster formation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Chemistry
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0307-6962
Date of Acceptance:	10 August 1979
Last Modified:	26 Jan 2026 10:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/184118

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