Color and Shape as Mediators of Host-Seeking Responses of Simuliids and Tabanids (Diptera) in the Tantramar Marshes, New Brunswick, Canada
- 31 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 17 (1) , 58-62
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/17.1.58
Abstract
The host-seeking responses of tabanids and simuliids to visual stimuli of color and shape were investigated in the Tintamirre National Wildlife Area, New Brunswick using 2-dimensional sticky silhouettes. Cnephia mutata oriented towards black, Prosimulium mixtum to red and Simulium venustum/verecundum to blue. Both Chrysops spp. and Hybomitra spp. were attracted to blue or red silhouettes, but were consistently unattracted to those of yellow, black and white. Tabanids consistently chose the attractive color portion of silhouettes striped with attractive and unattractive colors. Tabanids showed little preference for either moving or stationary target silhouettes. Shape of the silhouette was of little importance to either simuliids or tabanids.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: