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Cone snails use sexual enticements to lure prey out of hiding

Some cone snails use a previously undetected set of small molecules that mimic the effects of worm pheromones to drive marine worms into a sexual frenzy, making it easier to lure them out of their hiding places so the snails can gobble them up.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210331143122.htm
Cone snails use sexual enticements to lure prey out of hiding Cone snails use sexual enticements to lure prey out of hiding Reviewed by cmakigo on April 01, 2021 Rating: 5

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