How mosquitoes see traps: role of visual responses

The visual responses of female mosquitoes during appetitive and attraction flights to conspicuous features of their environment were reviewed. These studies showed for both flights long-range orientation (positive) could be followed by a short-range response (negative) to avoid the goal. In conjunct...

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Published inJournal of the American Mosquito Control Association Vol. 10; no. 2; p. 272
Main Author Bidlingmayer, W.L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.06.1994
Subjects
AILE
ALAS
Animals
Behavior, Animal
CULICIDAE
Culicidae - physiology
Female
FLIGHT
INSECTE NUISIBLE
INSECTOS DANINOS
LITERATURE REVIEWS
LOCOMOCION
LOCOMOTION
ORIENTACION
ORIENTATION
PEST INSECTS
PIEGE
TRAMPAS
TRAPS
VISION
Vision, Ocular
WINGS
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Summary:The visual responses of female mosquitoes during appetitive and attraction flights to conspicuous features of their environment were reviewed. These studies showed for both flights long-range orientation (positive) could be followed by a short-range response (negative) to avoid the goal. In conjunction with the optomotor anemotactic response, appetitive flights are controlled by visual orientation toward more or less distant targets, which permits females to make a wider search than upwind flight along could accomplish. Most attraction flights are controlled primarily by visual and olfactory cues. The influence of visual targets upon mosquito flight behavior and the effect of this behavior upon trap catches is discussed.
Bibliography:9502171
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ISSN:8756-971X
1943-6270