It was first identified from " Ips confusus ", in which it is believed to be a principle sex attractant.
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Grandisol is a pheromone primarily important as the sex attractant of the cotton boll weevil ( " Anthonomus grandis " ), from which it gets its name.
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In an unusual case, planidium larvae of some beetles of the genus " Meloe " form a group and produce a pheromone that mimics the sex attractant of its host bee species.
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Males of the valley elderberry longhorn beetle are attracted to ( R )-desmolactone, a chemical compound which functions as a sex pheromone or sex attractant for multiple species and subspecies in the cerambycid genus " Desmocerus ".
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A striking example of phoresy is that planidia of beetles of the genus " Meloe " will form a group and produce a pheromone that mimics the sex attractant of its host bee species; when the male bee arrives and attempts to mate with the mass of larvae, they climb onto his abdomen, and from there they transfer in turn to a female bee, and finally to the bee nest, where they attack the bee larvae as their hosts.
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