Yeoman, HannahMarshall, Jeremy2017-02-202017-02-20http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35254Citation: Yeoman, H. (2017). Flour Beetle Pheromones and Social Behavior . 1st Annual Undergraduate Research Experience in Entomology Symposium, November 16, 2016. Manhattam, KS.Being raised in a group or solitary can affect behavior of an animal. In this experiment, I am working with the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. I am studying whether the way the beetles are raised affects their pheromone preference. I have been searching for similar studies and there are only a select few that are in a comparable format as my own. This is important, because it shows the connection between group living and solitary living and the preference for a certain scent. The question that I am asking for this study is if living in solitude or in groups can affect the insects behavior. My hypothesis elaborates on that question and reads: “my hypothesis is that living in groups will increase the preference for all pheromone types (other and self scent)”. However, the results I found are not consistent with my hypothesis. Instead, I found that there is a significant difference between the pheromone preference for the group-scent in the beetles raised as a group as opposed to the ones raised solitary. These results are key because it shows that the beetles who have been raised in a social environment not only recognize the scent of their peers, but prefer the scent of their own group.en-USThis Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Text