Why do Manduca sexta feed from white flowers? Innate and learnt colour preferences in a hawkmoth

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 569-576

  Goyret, Joaquín ^a,c   Pfaff, Michael ^b   Raguso, Robert A ^a,c   Kelber, Almut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Seeley G Mudd Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Innate preference; Learning; Lepidoptera; Sensory ecology; Vision

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FLOWER; FOOD PREFERENCE; INNATE BEHAVIOR; MOTH; NECTAR; REFLECTANCE; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER COLOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MANDUCA SEXTA; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SMELLING; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; FLOWERS; FOOD PREFERENCES; INSTINCT; LEARNING; MANDUCA; MOTHS;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 44149095015     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0350-7     Document Type: Article

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