Dragonflies find crude oil visually more attractive than water: Multiple-choice experiments on dragonfly polarotaxis

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 292-297

  Horváth, Gábor ^a   Bernáth, Balázs ^a   Molnár, Gergely ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENT; INSECT; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0031827905     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050503     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Kennedy CH (1917) Notes on the life history and ecology of the dragonflies (Odonata) of central California and Nevada. Proc US Nat Mus 52:483
2. Puschnig R (1926) Albanische Libellen. Konowia 5:33, 113, 208, 313
3. Fraser FC (1936) The Fauna of British India. Odonata, vol 3. Taylor and Francis, London
4. Whitehouse FC (1941) A guide to the study of dragonflies of Jamaica. Bull Inst Jamaica Sci Ser no 3, pp 69
5. Kennedy CH (1938) The present status of work on the ecology of aquatic insects as shown by the work on the Odonata. Ohio J Sci 38:267
6. Horváth G, Zeil J (1996) Kuwait oil lakes as insect traps. Nature 379:303
7. Schwind R (1985) Sehen unter und über Wasser, Sehen vom Wasser: Das Sehsystem eines Wasserinsektes. Naturwissenschaften 72:343
8. Schwind R (1991) Polarization vision in water insects and insects living on a moist substrate. J Comp Physiol A 169:531
9. Schwind R (1995) Spectral regions in which aquatic insects see reflected polarized light. J Comp Physiol A 177:439
10. Angus PB (1973) Pleistocene Helophorus (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Borislav and Starunia in the Western Ukraine, with a reinterpretation of M. Somnicki's species, description of a new Siberian species and comparison with British Weichselian faunas. Phil Trans R Soc London 265:299
11. Akersten WA, Shaw CA, Jefferson GT (1983) Rancho La Brea: status and future. Paleobiology 9:211
12. Kowalski K (1997) Starunia. In: Lagerstaetten of Europe. European Palaeontological Association, Milan
13. Southwood TRE (1966) Ecological Methods. Chapman & Hall, London
14. Horváth G, Varjú D (1997) Polarization pattern of freshwater habitats recorded by video polarimetry in red, green and blue spectral ranges and its relevance for water detection by aquatic insects. J Exp Biol 200:1155
15. Laughlin SB (1976) The sensitivities of dragonfly photoreceptors and the voltage gain of transduction. J Comp Physiol 111:221
16. Laughlin S, McGinness S (1978) The structure of dorsal and ventral regions of a dragonfly retina. Cell Tissue Res 188:427
17. Kirk WDJ (1984) Ecologically selective coloured traps. Ecol Entomol 9:35
18. Horváth G, Pomozi I (1997) How celestial polarization changes due to reflection from the deflector panels used in deflector loft and mirror experiments studying avian navigation. J Theor Biol 184:291
19. Wildermuth H, Spinner W (1991) Visual cues in oviposition site selection by Somatochlora arctica (Zetterstedt) (Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Odonatologica 20:357
20. Wildermuth H (1993) Habitat selection and oviposition site recognition by the dragonfly Aeshna juncea (L.): an experimental approach in natural habitats (Anisoptera: Aeshnidae). Odonatologica 22:27
21. Wildermuth H (1998) Dragonflies recognize rendezvous and oviposition sites by horizontally polarized light: a behavioural field test. Naturwissenschaften (submitted)
22. Schwind R, Horváth G (1993) Reflection-polarization pattern at water surfaces and correction of a common representation of the polarization pattern of the sky. Naturwissenschaften 80:82
23. Horváth G (1995) Reflection-polarization patterns at flat water surfaces and their relevance for insect polarization vision. J Theor Biol 175:27
24. Corbet PS (1962) A Biology of Dragonflies. Witherby, Warwick
25. Muller HRA (1937) Een zonderlinge vergissing van Copera marginipes. De Troopische Natuur 26:95
26. Wyniger R (1955) Beobachtungen über die Eiablage von Libellula depressa (L.) (Odonata, Libellulidae). Mitt Ent Ges Basel NF 5:62
27. Neville P (1960) A list of Odonata from Ghana, with notes on their mating, flight, and resting sites. Proc R Ent Soc London A 35:124
28. Noordwijk, M. V (1980) Dragonfly behaviour over shining surfaces. Notul Odonatol 1:105
29. Fränzel U (1985) Öko-ethologische Untersuchungen an Cordulegaster bidentatus Selys, 1843 (Insecta: Odonata) im Bonner Raum. Thesis. University Bonn