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attractant
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n. anything that attracts, but especially a substance (such as a pheromone) that attracts insects or other animals
Usage examples of attractant.
Pheromone lure traps - which use the sex attractant chemicals of the insects themselves - are now available for warehouses, stores and home use, both for detection and control of these pests.
The lure, which combines attractants for six kinds of roaches, draws the roaches to the trap.
The attractant compound most favoured by the rodents would be a valuable aid in their destruction.
Jackie French reckons her ginger beer is a fruit fly attractant par excellence.
The empresses have highly individual attractant odors that are produced during their first mating flights and continue to exude during their lives, a kind of olfactory fingerprint.
The mysterious attractant that had pulled him through the Arizona night would not prove to be a pot of gold, nor would this house likely ever lie at the end of any rainbow.
The male silkworm moth is able to detect the female's sex attractant molecule if only about forty molecules per second reach its feathery antennae.
A single female silkworm moth need release only a hundredth of a microgram of sex attractant per second to attract every male silkworm in a volume of about a cubic mile.