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The Exocrine Glands of the Honey Bees

Their Structure and Secretory Products

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The insect societies are stable structures submitted to various qualitative and quantitative regulations funded on the perception of mechanical, acoustic, visual and mainly chemical stimuli. The chemical informations provided by the biotic environment are named allomones if they trigger a defensive behaviour, kairomone if they allow an attractive one to the emitor. The pheromones secreted by conspecific individuals, belonging or not to the same group or society, act immediatly on the behaviour (primer) or after a lag time on the physiology (releaser) of the receptive insect. The blend or pheromonal bouquet is truly the identity card of each insect.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Evolution des Etres organisés, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 105 boulevard Raspail, 75006, Paris, France

    Pierre Cassier

  2. Faculty of Agriculture Triwaks Bee Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    Yaacov Lensky

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  1. The Israeli College of Complementary Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Avshalom Mizrahi

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    Yaacov Lensky

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Cassier, P., Lensky, Y. (1997). The Exocrine Glands of the Honey Bees. In: Mizrahi, A., Lensky, Y. (eds) Bee Products. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9371-0_18

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