Silkmoths: Different olfactory worlds of females and males | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology https://www.ice.mpg.de/460131/PR_Schuh
The antenna of silkmoths, which is specialized in males to detect female pheromones, is particularly sensitive to the scent of silkworm excrement in females. In males, the detection of pheromones takes place in a long type of sensilla, whereas the long sensilla neurons of females detect the odor of larval excrement. The odor of the mulberry tree, the only silkworm host plant, on the other hand, is detected by the female silkmoths’ sensory neurons in medium-length sensilla.
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