Glass buildings on river banks as "polarized light traps" for mass-swarming polarotactic caddis flies

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 461-467

  Kriska, György ^a   Malik, Péter ^a   Szivák, Ildikó ^a   Horváth, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Caddis fly; Ecological trap; Glass surface; Hydropsyche pellucidula; Polarization vision; Polarotaxis

Indexed keywords

CADDISFLY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLASS; LABORATORY METHOD; OVIPOSITION; POLARIZATION; RIVER BANK; SWARMING; TAXIS; TRAPPING; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COPULATION; EGG LAYING; FLY; INSECT SWARM; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MATING SYSTEM; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; POLARIMETRY; RESPONSE TIME; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ALUMINUM; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIPTERA; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LIGHT; OVIPOSITION; PLASTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

DANUBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE;

HEXAPODA; HYDROPSYCHE PELLUCIDULA;

EID: 42449116077     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0345-4     Document Type: Article

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