Use of Fecal Extract Trails to Enhance Trap Catch in German Cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae) Monitoring Stations

Miller, Dini; koehler, Philip G.; Nation, James L.

doi:10.1603/0022-0493-93.3.865

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“…Therefore, the observed exploratory behavior was a random walk with the consequence that the probability of encountering other individuals diminished rapidly with the size of the area explored. In nature, German cockroaches mark their home range with aggregation reinforcing pheromones contained in their feces (Rust et al, 1995) and they mark trails that orient their displacements in preferential directions (Jeanson & Deneubourg, 2006;Miller, Koehler, & Nation, 2000). They also use visual landmarks and idiothetic cues to establish familiar routes to food sources in their home range (Durier & Rivault, 1999, 2000, 2001Rivault & Durier, 2004).…”

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Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

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Self-amplification processes are at the origin of several collective decision phenomena in insect societies. Understanding these processes requires linking individual behavioral rules of insects to a choice dynamics at the colony level. In a homogeneous environment, the German cockroach Blattella germanica displays self-amplified aggregation behavior. In a heterogeneous environment where several shelters are present, groups of cockroaches collectively select one of them. In this article, we demonstrate that the restriction of the self-amplified aggregation behavior to distinct zones in the environment can explain the emergence of a collective decision at the level of the group. This hypothesis is tested with robotics experiments and dedicated computer simulations. We show that the collective decision is influenced by the available spaces to explore and to aggregate in, by the size of the population involved in the aggregation process and by the probability of encounter zones while the robots explore the environment. We finally discuss these results from both a biological and a robotics point of view.

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Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

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“…Members of an aggregation may have greater mating frequency and reproductive success, and an aggregation/arrestment pheromone can potentially mark a harborage, signal suitability and convey information about the presence of conspecifics or potential mates. The aggregation pheromone of some cockroaches is thought to function as a chemical marker for harborage (Bell et al 1973;Kitamura et al 1974;Metzger 1995;Stejskal 1997) or trail recognition (Sakuma & Fukami 1985;Wendler & Vlatten 1993;Miller & Koehler 2000;Miller et al 2000). Evidence for aggregation pheromones in other apterygote insects has only been reported in species of Collembola (Mertens & Bourgoignie 1977;Verhoef et al 1977;Joosse & Koelman 1979;Mertens et al 1979;Kroll & Bauer 1987;Christiansen et al 1992;Manica et al 2001).…”

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Pheromone-based aggregation behaviour of the firebrat, Thermobia domestica (Packard) (Thysanura: Lepismatidae)

Tremblay¹,

Gries

2003

Chemoecology

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We tested the hypothesis that aggregation behaviour of the firebrat, Thermobia domestica (Packard) (Thysanura: Lepismatidae), an inhabitant of enclosed microhabitats, is mediated, at least in part, by a pheromone. Individual insects were released into the central chamber of a 3-chambered olfactometer and test stimuli were placed in lateral chambers. Paper discs previously exposed for 3 days to 10 female, male, or juvenile T. domestica were all preferred by female, male, or juvenile T. domestica over unexposed paper discs, indicating the presence of an aggregation/arrestment pheromone. In additional experiments, frass and scales from female T. domestica, tested singly and in combination, proved not to be the source of the pheromone. Physical contact was required for pheromone recognition, indicating that the pheromone arrests rather than attracts conspecifics. Arrestment by the long-tailed silverfish, Ctenolepisma longicaudata Escherich (Thysanura: Lepismatidae), but not by the common silverfish, Lepisma saccharina L. (Thysanura: Lepismatidae), to T. domestica exposed paper discs suggests closer phylogenetic relatedness between C. longicaudata and T. domestica, than between C. longicaudata and L. saccharina. Whether C. longicaudata or L. saccharina produce an aggregation signal, and whether T. domestica respond to this signal is unknown.

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“…This can be easily explained by the fact that faeces were also present on the CC papers that were conditioned for several days. Although faeces are attractive in some cockroach species (Miller et al 2000), their absence in the VC paper chemical blend did not impair aggregation. It seems likely that are not part of the aggregation message.…”

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Intraspecific Signals Inducing Aggregation in Periplaneta americana (Insecta: Dictyoptera)

Saïd

Malosse

Virginie

et al. 2015

Environmental Entomology

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Chemical communication is necessary to induce aggregation and to maintain the cohesion of aggregates in Periplaneta americana (L.) cockroaches. We aimed to identify the chemical message inducing aggregation in this species. Two types of bioassays were used-binary choice tests in Petri dishes and tests in Y-olfactometer. Papers conditioned by direct contact of conspecifics induce aggregation when proposed in binary choice tests and were attractive in a Y-olfactometer. The identification of the molecules present on these conditioned papers indicated that dichloromethane extracts contained mainly cuticular hydrocarbons whereas methanol extracts contained more volatile molecules. Only a mixture of extracts in both solvents induced aggregation. High concentrations of cuticular hydrocarbons are necessary to induce aggregation when presented alone. When presented with volatile molecules present in methanol extracts, low concentrations of cuticular hydrocarbons are sufficient to induce aggregation if they are presented in contact. Among volatile molecules collected on filter paper, a mixture of three compounds-hexadecanoic acid, pentadecanoic acid, and pentaethylene glycol-induced aggregation. Our results provide evidence that aggregation processes in P. americana relies on a dual mechanism: attraction over long distances by three volatile molecules and maintenance on site by contact with cuticular hydrocarbons.

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Use of Fecal Extract Trails to Enhance Trap Catch in German Cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae) Monitoring Stations

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

Pheromone-based aggregation behaviour of the firebrat, Thermobia domestica (Packard) (Thysanura: Lepismatidae)

Intraspecific Signals Inducing Aggregation in Periplaneta americana (Insecta: Dictyoptera)

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