Wind generated by an attacking bat: Anemometric measurements and detection by the praying mantis cercal system

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1430-1440

  Triblehorn, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Yager, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat; Cercal; Escape; Insect; Mantis; Wind

Indexed keywords

AIR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MANTODEA; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MANTODEA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

BLATTARIA; INSECTA; MANTIDAE; MANTIS; MANTIS RELIGIOSA; MANTODEA;

EID: 33646717623     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02132     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Acharya, L. and Fenton, M. B. (1992). Echolocation behavior of vespertilionid bats (Lasiurus cinereus and Lasiurus borealis) attacking airborne targets including arctiid moths. Can. J. Zool. 70, 1292-1298.
2. Altman, J. (1983). Sensory inputs and the generation of the locust flight motor pattern: from the past to the future. In Biona Report 2 (ed. W. Nachtigal), pp. 127-136. Stuttgart: Gustave Fischer.
3. Boudreaux, H. B. (1979). Arthropod Phylogeny with Special Reference to Insects. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
4. Boyan, G. S. and Ball, E. E. (1990). Neuronal organization and information processing in the wind-sensitive cercal receptor/giant interneurone system of the locust and other orthopteroid insects. Prog. Neurobiol. 35, 217-243.
5. Boyan, G. S., Ashman, S. and Ball, E. E. (1986). Initiation and modulation of flight by a single giant interneuron in the cercal system of the locust. Naturwissenschaften 73, 272-274.
6. Burrows, M. (1996). The Neurobiology of an Insect Brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
7. Camhi, J. M. (1984). Neuroethology: Nerve Cells and the Natural Behavior of Animals. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
8. Camhi, J. M. and Nolen, T. G. (1981). Properties of the escape system of cockroaches during walking. J. Comp. Physiol. A 142, 339-346.
9. Camhi, J. M., Tom, W. and Volman, S. (1978). The escape behavior of the cockroach Periplaneta americana. II. Detection of natural predators by air displacement. J. Comp. Physiol. A 128, 203-212.
10. Dagan, D. and Camhi, J. M. (1979). Responses to wind recorded from the cercal nerve of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana. II. Directional selectivity of the sensory neurons innervating single columns of filiform hairs. J. Comp. Physiol. A 133, 103-110.
11. Dunning, D. C. (1968). Warning sounds of moths. Z. Tierpsychol. 25, 129-138.
12. Dunning, D. C., Acharya, L., Merriman, C. B. and Dal Ferro, L. (1992). Interactions between bats and arctiid moths. Can. J. Zool. 70, 2218-2223.
13. Eaton, R. C., DiDominico, R. and Nissanov, J. (1991). The role of the Mauthner cell in sensorimotor integration by the brainstem escape network. Brain Behav. Evol. 37, 272-285.
14. Edwards, J. S. and Reddy, R. (1986). Mechanosensory appendages and giant interneurons in the firebrat (Thermobia domestica, Thysanura): a prototype system for predator evasion. J. Comp. Neurol. 243, 535-546.
15. Ehrmann, R. and Roy, R. (2002). Systematische aufstellung der gattungen. In Mantodea: Gottesanbeterinnen der Welt (ed. R. Ehrmann), pp. 374-378. Munich: Natur und Teil-Verlag.
16. Endler, J. A. (1986). Natural Selection in the Wild. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
17. Fraser, P. (1977). Cereal ablation modifies tethered flight behaviour of cockroach. Nature 268, 523-524.
18. Fullard, J. H. (1984). Listening for bats: pulse repetition rate as a cue for a defensive behavior in Cycnia tenera (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). J. Comp. Physiol. A 154, 249-252.
19. Fullard, J. H., Fenton, M. B. and Simmons, J. A. (1979). Jamming bat echolocation: the clicks of arctiid moths. Can. J. Zool. 57, 647-649.
20. Fullard, J. H., Simmons, J. A. and Saillant, P. A. (1994). Jamming bat echolocation: the dogbane tiger moth Cycnia tenera times its clicks to the terminal attack calls of the big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus. J. Exp. Biol. 194, 285-298.
21. Ganihar, D., Libersat, F., Wendler, G. and Camhi, J. M. (1994). Wind-evoked evasive responses in flying cockroaches. J. Comp. Physiol. A 175, 49-65.
22. Ghose, K., Horiuchi, T. K., Krishnaprasad, P. S. and Moss, C. F. (in press). Echolocating bats use a nearly time-optimal strategy to intercept prey. PLoS Biol.
23. Heitler, W. J. (1974). The locust jump. Specializations of the metathoracic femoral-tibial joint. J. Comp. Physiol. 89, 93-104.
24. Hennig, W. (1981). Insect Phylogeny. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
25. Hristov, N. I. and Conner, W. E. (2005). Sound strategy: acoustic aposematism in the bat-tiger moth arms race. Naturwissenschaften 92, 164-169.
26. Jones, G. and Rayner, J. M. V. (1988). Flight performance, foraging tactics, and echolocation in free-living Daubentons bats Myotis daubentoni (Chiroptera, Verspertilionidae). J. Zool. Lond. 215, 113-132.
27. Kämper, G. (1984). Abdominal ascending interneurons in crickets: responses to sound at the 30-Hz calling-song frequency. J. Comp. Physiol. A 155, 507-520.
28. Kämper, G. and Dambach, M. (1979). Communication by infrasound in a non-stridulating cricket. Naturwissenschaften 66, 530.
29. Kämper, G. and Dambach, M. (1981). Response of the cercus-to-giant interneuron system in crickets to species-specific song. J. Comp. Physiol. A 141, 311-317.
30. Kämper, G. and Dambach, M. (1985). Low-frequency airborne vibrations generated by crickets during singing and aggression. J. Insect Physiol. 12, 925-929.
31. Krasne, F. B. and Wine, J. J. (1984). The production of crayfish tailflip escape responses. In Neural Mechanisms of Startle Behavior (ed. R. C. Eaton), pp. 179-211. New York: Plenum Press.
32. Libersat, F. and Camhi, J. M. (1988). Control of sensory feedback by movement during flight in the cockroach. J. Exp. Biol. 136, 483-488.
33. Libersat, F., Goldstein, R. S. and Camhi, J. M. (1987). Nonsynaptic regulation of sensory activity during movement in cockroaches. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84, 8150-8154.
34. Masters, W. M. (1988). Prey interception: predictive and nonpredictive strategies. In Animal Sonar: Processes and Performance (ed. P. E. Nachtigal and P. W. B. Moore), pp. 467-470. New York: Plenum Press.
35. Masters, W. M., Moffat, A. J. M. and Simmons, J. A. (1985). Sonar tracking of horizontally moving targets by the big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus. Science 228, 1331-1333.
36. Miller, L. A. and Olesen, J. (1979). Avoidance behavior in green lacewings. I. Behavior of free flying green lacewings to hunting bats and ultrasound. J. Comp. Physiol. 131, 113-120.
37. Miller, L. A. and Surlykke, A. (2001). How some insects detect and avoid being eaten by bats: tactics and countertactics of prey and predator. Bioscience 51, 570-581.
38. Möhl, B. and Miller, L. A. (1976). Ultrasonic clicks produced by the peacock butterfly: a possible bat-repellent mechanism. J. Exp. Biol. 64, 639-644.
39. Nolen, T. G. and Hoy, R. R. (1986). Phonotaxis in flying crickets. I. Attraction to the calling song and avoidance of bat-like ultrasound are discrete behaviors. J. Comp. Physiol. A 159, 423-439.
40. Palka, J., Levine, R. and Schubiger, M. (1977). The cercal-to-giant interneuron system of crickets. I. Some attributes of the sensory cells. J. Comp. Physiol. A 119, 267-283.
41. Plummer, M. R. and Camhi, J. M. (1981). Discrimination of sensory signals from noise in the escape system of the cockroach: The role of wind acceleration. J. Comp. Physiol. A 142, 347-357.
42. Ritzmann, R. E. (1984). The cockroach escape response. In Neural Mechanisms of Startle Behavior (ed. R. C. Eaton), pp. 93-131. New York: Plenum Press.
43. Schnitzler, H.-U. (1987). Echoes of fluttering insects: information for echolocating bats. In Recent Advances in the Study of Bats (ed. M. B. Fenton, P. A. Racey, and J. M. V. Rayner), pp. 226-243. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
44. Tauber, E. and Camhi, J. M. (1995). The wind-evoked escape behavior of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus: integration of behavioral elements. J. Exp. Biol. 198, 1895-1907.
45. Triblehorn, J. D. (1997). Near-field sound reception in the praying mantis Sphodromantis aurea. Masters thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
46. Triblehorn, J. D. (2003). Multisensory integration in the ultrasound-triggered escape response of the praying mantis, Parasphendale agrionina, PhD thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
47. Triblehorn, J. D. and Yager, D. D. (2002). Implanted electrode recordings from a praying mantis auditory interneuron during flying bat attacks. J. Exp. Biol. 205, 307-320.
48. Triblehorn, J. D. and Yager, D. D. (2005). Timing of praying mantis evasive responses during simulated bat attack sequences. J. Exp. Biol. 208, 1867-1876.
49. Westin, J. (1979). Responses to wind recorded from the cercal nerve of the cockroach Periplaneta americana. I. Response properties of single sensory neurons. J. Comp. Physiol. A 133, 97-102.
50. Wilson, W. W. and Moss, C. F. (2002). Sensory-motor behavior of free-flying FM bats during target capture. In Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins (ed. J. A. Thomas, C. F. Moss and M. Vater), pp. 22-27. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
51. Yager, D. D. and Hoy, R. R. (1989). Audition in the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa L.: identification of an interneuron mediating ultrasonic hearing. J. Comp. Physiol. A 165, 471-493.
52. Yager, D. D. and May, M. L. (1990). Ultrasound-triggered, flight-gated evasive maneuvers in the praying mantis Parasphendale agrionina. II. Tethered flight. J. Exp. Biol. 152, 41-58.
53. Yager, D. D., May, M. L. and Fenton, M. B. (1990). Ultrasound-triggered, flight-gated evasive maneuvers in the praying mantis Parasphendale agrionina. I. Free flight. J. Exp. Biol. 152, 17-39.