Color Perception in Insects

Weiss, Harry B.

doi:10.1093/jee/36.1.1

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“…geminata displayed similar diel patterns of response to mercury-vapor and to high-pressure sodium lamps (with peaks in flight activity from 6-0 h before the onset of scotophase). However, the cumulative response of S. geminata over the diel period was greater to the shorter-wavelength mercury-vapor lamp, a response typical of most insects (Weiss, 1943). S. geminata displayed a pattern of activity during the diel period that is similar to that for C. hemipterus and C. lugubris (Blackmer, unpubl. data).…”

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Chemical ‘generalists' and behavioral ‘specialists‘: a comparison of host finding by Stelidota geminata and Stelidota octomaculata

Blackmer

Phelan

1992

Entomologia Exp Applicata

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Host orientation by two nitidulid beetles was compared: Stelidota geminata (Say), which is very broad in its' host range, and Stelidota octomaculata (Say), a species whose feeding is restricted primarily to acorns. In a no‐choice assay, both species responded to all food substrates offered and neither showed a significant preference among substrates (except banana versus wood fungi for S. octomaculata), or between aseptic and inoculated treatments; however, S. geminata readily displayed both phototactic flights and host‐orienting flights, whereas S. octomaculata never exhibited phototactic flight and never responded to food odors by flying to the source. Furthermore, when upwind‐walking response was compared, S. octomaculata walked to the source at a rate of 0.16 ± 0.01 cm/s, which was significantly lower than that of S. geminata, with a rate of 0.54 ± 0.02 cm/s. Turning frequency on the way to the source also differed between the two species, whereas distance traveled, number of pauses, and duration of pauses did not differ significantly. We submit that both species represent ‘olfactory generalists’, and that the restricted host range of S. octomaculata compared to S. geminata is not mediated by differences in long‐range response to host odors, but rather is due to differences in other behaviors such as a reduced rate of locomotion, post‐landing behavior, and possibly ecological factors.

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Chemical ‘generalists' and behavioral ‘specialists‘: a comparison of host finding by Stelidota geminata and Stelidota octomaculata

Blackmer

Phelan

1992

Entomologia Exp Applicata

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“…Recent reviews of the literature have been given by Weiss (1943), Andrewartha & Birch (1954) and Thomson (19S1). In fact, relatively few critical phototactic studies have been conducted with any species of mosquito, most of the work with insects being done with other groups.…”

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“…Other groups of factors which may affect an insect's reaction to light have been enumerated by Weiss (1943) as follows: previous exposure to light, angle of incidence, variations in sen-sitivity of different parts of the compound eye, position of the iris pigment and the rate of pigment migration in relation to light intensity, temperature, moisture, and air currents, chemotropism, its variable physiological state, the stimulation of sense organs other than the eyes, the influence of the central nervous system and the wave length and intensity of the radiation to which it is first exposed. It may well be that this adequately represents reactions of wild populations, their actually having little response except to fairly sharp contrasts in intensity.…”

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Reactions of Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say to Moisture, Temperature, and Light

Platt¹,

Collins²,

Witherspoon³

1957

Ecological Monographs

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Rearing techniques The experimental chamber Temperature Humidity Wave length and intensity of light Color temperatures Sampling methods and analysis of results ESULTS Moisture Responses to relative humidity gradients Responses to vapor pressure and absolute humidity gradients Effects of duration of time on survival in dry air Temperature Experiments involving slowly rising temperatures Experiments involving short-term exposures to a series of constant temperatures, at high and low humidities Experiments relating to the influence of

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“…Colour perception in insects has been reviewed extensively by Weiss (1943Weiss ( , 1944Weiss ( , 1946, who points out' that most of the available information indicates that light intensity is more important than wavelength' in producing reactions. However, von Frisch and others have shown that, for bees at least, there is a definite wavelength discrimination (Wigglesworth 1939).…”

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The Effect of Colour on the Numbers of Housefliesresting on Painted Surfaces

Waterhouse¹

1948

Aust. Jnl. Of Bio. Sci.

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SummaryA simple technique for determining the preference of houseflies for surfdces of various colours is described. This consists of liberating adults into a Peet·Grady testing chamher fitted with movable coloured corners. The numbers of flies rest· ing on the coloured corners are recorded at intervals to provide adequate data for comparison.The ascending order of preference for the particular colours lested was white and sky hlue (equal) ,light grey, green, yellow and medium grey (equal), dusky hIue, and red. From measurements of the visual reflectances of the various colours it was found. that the order of preference could he explained. largely hy a reaction to the intensity of the light reflected hy the coloured surfaces, darker surfaces heing preferred to lighter surfaces.

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Color Perception in Insects

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Chemical ‘generalists' and behavioral ‘specialists‘: a comparison of host finding by Stelidota geminata and Stelidota octomaculata

Chemical ‘generalists' and behavioral ‘specialists‘: a comparison of host finding by Stelidota geminata and Stelidota octomaculata

Reactions of Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say to Moisture, Temperature, and Light

The Effect of Colour on the Numbers of Housefliesresting on Painted Surfaces

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