Yinliang Wang, Huanhuan Dong, Yafei Qu, Yuxin Zhou, Jianhui Qin, Kebin Li, Chen Luo, Bingzhong Ren, Yazhong Cao, Shuai Zhang, Jiao Yin, Walter S Leal
Animals have endogenous clocks that regulate their behavior and physiology. These clocks rely on environmental cues (time givers) that appear approximately every 24 h due to the Earth's rotation; thus, most insects exhibit a circadian rhythm. One notable exception is the scarab beetle, Holotrichia parallela, a severe agricultural pest in China, Japan, South Korea, and India. Females emerge from the soil every other night, reach the canopy of host plants, evert an abdominal gland, and release a pheromone bouquet comprising l-isoleucine methyl ester (LIME) and l-linalool...
January 12, 2024: Current Biology: CB