Look up: attractant

1. Attractant
   A chemical or agent that lures insects or other pests by stimulating their sense of smell.
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2. Attractant
   Material with odour that attracts insects (lure and kill) used to lure insects to traps, or poison-bait stations. Usually classed as food, oviposition and sex attractants.
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3. attractant
   Substance which attracts animals. Some attractants fulfill natural biological functions such as mating or predation: others may be used to attract animals for monitoring or for control. See also pheromone
   Found on http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/iupacgloss
   
   
4. attractant
   a substance that elicits a positive directive response,particularly a chemical having positive attraction for animals such as insects Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • A chemical that causes an organism to make oriented movements towards its source...
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5. attractant
   (from the article `chemoreception`) At least four classes of chemicals are recognized that affect feeding behaviour: (1) attractants: odours eliciting movement toward the source; (2) ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/122