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Attractiveness of thermally different, uniformly black targets to horseflies: Tabanus tergestinus prefers sunlit warm shiny dark targets

From a large distance tabanid flies may find their host animal by means of its shape, size, motion, odour, radiance and degree of polarization of host-reflected light. After alighting on the host, tabanids may use their mechano-, thermo-, hygro- and chemoreceptors to sense the substrate characterist...

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Autores principales: Horváth, Gábor, Pereszlényi, Ádám, Tóth, Tímea, Polgár, Szabolcs, Jánosi, Imre M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6837212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31824718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191119