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Here, a male and female bed bug have found each other, but sometimes a male bed bug will mistake another male for a good mating partner. In such cases, pheromones can play a different role than usually thought by sending the message “back off!”
Credit: Rickard Ignell/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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