Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Oct., 1968), pp. 474-481 (8 pages) The stingless bees of the genus Trigona use the mandibular gland secretion for communication. Field bees ...

MANDIBULAR glands have been suggested as a possible source of an odour that attracts drones to virgin queens for mating 1. The experiments in this report concern attempts to determine if virgin queens ...

THE mandibular glands of worker honey bees secrete 10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid, the chief lipoid component of larval food 1,2, but although this substance is odourless, the secretion as a whole has a ...

Small amounts of chemical substances were applied at a sugarwater bait where workers from a colony of Trigona fulviventris fulviventris Guérin were foraging. The bees showed no response to almond ...

People may have salivary gland surgery to remove part or all of the salivary gland. Its primary purpose is to remove tumors, but it can also help treat infections and inflammation. A person has three ...

A group led by researchers at Butantan Institute in Brazil and supported by FAPESP has described for the first time the presence of venom glands in the mouth of an amphibian. The legless animal is a ...