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Isolation and identification of compounds influencing the behavior of Hymenoptera

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Abstract

We described detailed composition of males' marking pheromones of a few new species of bumblebees and cuckoo bumblebees; age-dependent changes of the male labial gland of B. terrestris were studied here for the first time; we studied the composition of exocrine glands of bumblebee virgin queens for the first time; we described the composition of secretions of three different exocrine glands of five bumblebee species