{"id":786,"date":"2003-08-12T04:13:36","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T04:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:20","slug":"perfumes-provoke-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"perfumes provoke pests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Having a problem with hornets bothering you at the  family picnic? Perhaps it&#8217;s the perfume you&#8217;re wearing &#8212; or even the  food you&#8217;re eating. Masato Ono of Tamagawa University in Tokyo and  colleagues report in the August 7 <em>Nature<\/em> that chemicals found in  fragrances and manufactured food can make hornets fly into a frenzy and  attack. When hornets are threatened, they release alarm pheromones &#8212;  chemical signals &#8212; that cause fellow hornets to attack defensively. The  researchers analyzed the components of these pheromones and confirmed  that they contain chemicals sometimes used in fragrances and in food  flavorings and speculate that &#8220;it is possible that they might provoke a  seemingly unwarranted hornet attack on humans.&#8221; They conclude, &#8220;It may  therefore be sensible to screen these commercial products for the  presence of pheromones that might act as an alarm signal to dangerous  insects.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 8\/12\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a problem with hornets bothering you at the family picnic? Perhaps it&#8217;s the perfume you&#8217;re wearing &#8212; or even the food you&#8217;re eating. Masato Ono of Tamagawa University in Tokyo and colleagues report in the August 7 Nature that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=786\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}