ABSTRACT
Together with the honey bee dance, honey bee pheromones represent one of the most advanced ways of communication among social insects.
Pheromones are chemical substances secreted by an animal’s exocrine glands that elicit a behavioral or physiological response by another animal of the same species. In honey bees the targets of pheromonal messages are usually members of the same colony, but there are some exceptions in which the target can be a member of another colony (Free 1987).
