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Keywords: medical acarology, extraction of pheromones, pheromone chemistry, Amblyomma, bioassay procedures, Y-shaped olfactometer, petri dish technique, aggregation and attachment, secretion of the pheromone, perception of pheromones, chemical studies, potential use of pheromones in tick control. Females, after gaining a host, move at random and will only attach in response to the hormone secreted by a fed male.