Contrary Responses of Musca Domestica Concerning Their Selection of Different Shades and Hues

Hecht, O.; Muñiz, Raúl; Nava, Andrea

doi:10.1111/j.1570-7458.1968.tb00069.x

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“…This contradicts previous experiments where more house ßies landed on yellow paper than on papers of other colors (Awati and Swaminath 1920), being caught in yellow painted plastic jug traps (Burg and Axtell 1984), or being attracted to yellow cards (Nava 1967, Hecht et al 1968). Wavelengths reßected by the traps used in those experiments were not reported by the authors.…”

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Behavioral and Physiological Response ofMusca domesticato Colored Visual Targets

Diclaro¹,

Cohnstaedt²,

Pereira³

et al. 2012

J Med Entomol

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A better understanding of the visual attraction of house flies to colors and patterns is needed to improve fly trap performance. This study combined physiological responses measured with electroretinogram studies of the house fly's compound eyes and ocelli with behavioral attraction of flies to reflective colors and patterns in light tunnel assays. Compound eye and ocellar electroretinogram responses to reflected light were similar, with the largest responses to white and blue followed by yellow, red, green, and black. However, data from light tunnel behavioral assays showed that flies were attracted to white and blue light but were repelled by yellow. The addition of a black line pattern enhanced the attractiveness of blue visual targets, whereas yellow lines decreased attractiveness. Sensory input from the compound eye and the ocellus seems to be integrated to direct fly behavior. There is a direct correlation of house fly attractiveness to visual targets and the intensity of electrophysiological response, except for the yellow targets, which repel flies despite of intense electrophysiological response.

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Section: Table 2 Mean Depolarization (؎Se) In the Equatorial Region contrasting

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Behavioral and Physiological Response ofMusca domesticato Colored Visual Targets

Diclaro¹,

Cohnstaedt²,

Pereira³

et al. 2012

J Med Entomol

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“…The rank order of colour preferences obtained in the present experiments resembles that of experiments in the open air byHecht et al (1968).…”

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“…Spontaneous colour prelerences may be Y>B, W_>O, R> G, while the order rank of the subjective brightness to the fly is W > Y > G > B > O > R. Thus, the spontaneous colour preferences of the fly on the test array do not simply depend on subjective brightness. Hecht et al (1968) Blue and yellow are the colours the flies learn easily, and they can discriminate well between them (Figs. 5 and 9).…”

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Learning and discrimination of coloured papers in the walking blowfly, Lucilia cuprina

Fukushi

1989

J Comp Physiol A

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A new training and testing paradigm for walking sheep blowflies, Lucilia cuprina, is described. A fly is trained by presenting it with a droplet of sugar solution on a patch of coloured paper. After having consumed the sugar droplet, the fly starts a systematic search. While searching, it is confronted with an array of colour marks consisting of four colours displayed on the test cardboard (Fig. 1). Colours used for training and test include blue, green, yellow, orange, red, white and black. Before training, naive flies are tested for their spontaneous colour preferences on the test array. Yellow is visited most frequently, green least frequently (Table 2). Spontaneous colour preferences do not simply depend on subjective brightness (Table 1). The flies trained to one of the colours prefer this colour significantly (Figs. 5 and 9-11). This behaviour reflects true learning rather than sensitisation (Figs. 6-7). The blue and yellow marks are learned easily and discriminated well (Figs. 5, 9, 11). White is also discriminated well, although the response frequencies are lower than to blue and yellow (Fig. 11). Green is discriminated from blue but weakly from yellow and orange (Figs. 5, 9, 10). Red is a stimulus as weak as black (Figs. 8, 9). These features of colour discrimination reflect the spectral loci of colours in the colour triangle (Fig. 14). The coloured papers seem to be discriminated mainly by the hue of colours, but brightness may also be used to discriminate colour stimuli (Fig.13).

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“…The responses of M. domestica to colour in the laboratory have been well documented, and Hecht (1970) concluded that contrast with the surroundings is more important than colour. In the uniform grey environment of a dairy barn it was demonstrated that the most attractive colour was yellow in the absence of any chemical stimuli ( Hecht et al . 1968 ).…”

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Visual responses of Musca domestica to pheromone impregnated targets in poultry units

Chapman

Knapp

Goulson

1999

Medical Vet Entomology

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Field trials investigating the effect of visual cues on catches of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) at toxic targets impregnated with the female sex pheromone (Z)-9-tricosene, were conducted in a caged-layer deep-pit poultry unit in southern England. Targets treated with azamethiphos and baited with 2.5 g of 40% (Z)-9-tricosene impregnated beads caught significantly greater numbers of M. domestica than control targets. The greater attractiveness of the pheromone impregnated targets persisted for at least 5 weeks. The addition of longitudinal black stripes, or a regularly spaced pattern of black spots, to the white targets had no effect on catch rates. However, a pattern of clustered black spots, designed to imitate groups of feeding M. domestica, significantly increased target catches; this effect was particularly pronounced in the targets impregnated with (Z)-9-tricosene. Trials comparing the attractiveness of white and fluorescent yellow pheromone-treated targets under two different lighting regimes indicated that M. domestica does not have a significant preference for either colour. The implications of these results in relation to the control of M. domestica populations in poultry units are discussed.

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Contrary Responses of Musca Domestica Concerning Their Selection of Different Shades and Hues

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Behavioral and Physiological Response ofMusca domesticato Colored Visual Targets

Behavioral and Physiological Response ofMusca domesticato Colored Visual Targets

Learning and discrimination of coloured papers in the walking blowfly, Lucilia cuprina

Visual responses of Musca domestica to pheromone impregnated targets in poultry units

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