Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, 77843, College Station, Texas.
J Chem Ecol. 1982 Feb;8(2):319-27. doi: 10.1007/BF00987780.
Males of the solitary Central American beeCentris adani Cockerell possess enlarged mandibular glands filled with a fragrant fluid that was shown by gas chromatographic and mass spectral analysis to consist of nerol, geraniol, neral, ethyl laurate, and geranyl acetate. Male bees set up territories by marking a semicircular array of grass stems with these compounds. Grass stems marked by the bees showed the presence of the same chemicals.
中美洲独居蜜蜂 Centris adani Cockerell 的雄性个体拥有巨大的下颌腺，里面充满了一种芳香的液体。通过气相色谱和质谱分析，这种液体由橙花醇、香叶醇、橙花醛、月桂酸乙酯和乙酸香叶酯组成。雄性蜜蜂通过用这些化合物标记半圆形的草茎来建立领地。被蜜蜂标记过的草茎显示出了相同的化学物质的存在。
