Sensory ecology of feeding in the hummingbird hawkmoth Macroglossum stellatarum (Lepidoptera : Sphingidae)
Författare
Summary, in English
The European hummingbird hawkmoth, Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus 1758), drinks nectar while hovering in front of flowers of all colours, odours, sizes and shapes. Naive moths orient predominantly towards visual stimuli and prefer blue flowers with a radial pattern and a central contrasting spot. Hummingbird hawkmoths have trichromatic colour vision and can learn any colour and different patterns and sizes of flowers. Odour learning, however, depends on flower colour and docs, not take place when the colour is very attractive on its own.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
97-110
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Entomologia Generalis
Volym
29
Issue
2-4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
E. Schweizerbart Science Publishers
Ämne
- Zoology
Nyckelord
- olfaction
- nectar
- colour preference
- learning
- colour vision
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Lund Vision Group
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0171-8177