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1. Effect of Chemical and Visual Cues in the Maze Performance of the Ant Dinoponera quadriceps

Author:
Dina L. O. Azevedo; Pablo F. G. A. Santos; André Gustavo Campos Pereira; Gilberto Corso; Arrilton Araújo
Source:
Journal of insect behavior 2022 v.35 no.4 pp. 103-113
ISSN:
0892-7553
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Dinoponera; magnetism; nests; odors;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Ants use chemical, visual, magnetic and/or solar cues during foraging activity. Orientation is important, since foragers need to return to the nest. In this study, we analyze the maze performance of the Dinoponera quadriceps using chemical and visual cues to study spatial orientation. We used a white maze with seventeen chambers and we allowed the ants to explore for ten minutes in each session. S ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10905-022-09803-6

2. No Indication of Background Color Matching in a Population of the Brown-Green Polymorphic Admirable Grasshopper (Syrbula admirabilis)

Author:
Iván de la Hera; Michael S. Reichert
Source:
Journal of insect behavior 2022 v.35 no.4 pp. 114-126
ISSN:
0892-7553
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; color; frass; grasshoppers; habitats; phenotype; predation;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... In color polymorphic insects, individuals may track available habitats and select those that better match their color phenotype. This so-called habitat choice mechanism can balance the chances of survival between morphs, equalizing fitness, which can contribute to the long-term maintenance of color polymorphism in a population. We used a population of the brown-green polymorphic admirable grasshop ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10905-022-09804-5

3. Primacy of Human Odors Over Visual and Heat Cues in Inducing Landing in Female Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

Author:
Benjamin D. Sumner; Ring T. Cardé
Source:
Journal of insect behavior 2022 v.35 no.1-3 pp. 31-43
ISSN:
0892-7553
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Aedes aegypti; females; glass; heat; hematophagy; humans; odors; skin (animal);     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... Although human skin odor is thought to be the cue that anthropophilic mosquitoes use to discriminate us from other potential hosts, the precise details of how they use skin odor to find and land on a human is unclear. We found that Aedes aegypti land on a source of skin odor without a co-located visual cue. By collecting human odor on glass beads and using identical glass beads to visually conceal ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10905-022-09796-2

4. An Artificial Neural Network-Based Pest Identification and Control in Smart Agriculture Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Author:
Kamred Udham Singh; Ankit Kumar; Linesh Raja; Vikas Kumar; Alok Kumar Singh kushwaha; Neeraj Vashney; Manoj Chhetri
Source:
Journal of food quality 2022 v.2022 pp. -
ISSN:
1745-4557
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; food quality; insect infestations; neural networks; pest identification; pesticides; precision agriculture; India;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... Despite living in a rural country, farmers in India face several challenges. Every year, they suffer significant losses due to agricultural insect infestation. These losses are primarily the result of inadequate field surveillance, crop diseases, and ineffective pesticide management. We need cutting-edge technology that is constantly evolving to maintain control over such major concerns responsibl ...
DOI:
10.1155/2022/5801206

5. Behavioural response of Culex pipiens biotype molestus to oviposition pheromone

Author:
Anastasia Fytrou; Dimitrios P. Papachristos; Panagiotis G. Milonas; Athanasios Giatropoulos; Spyros E. Zographos; Antonios Michaelakis
Source:
Journal of insect physiology 2022 v.138 pp. 104383
ISSN:
0022-1910
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Culex pipiens; biotypes; food choices; insect physiology; males; oviposition; pheromones; sensory system;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... Insect behaviour relies on an olfactory sensory system that controls a range of activities, from food choice and mating to oviposition, where pheromones play a central role. In Culex mosquitoes, egg-laying is accompanied by the release of mosquito oviposition pheromone (MOP), which has been shown to affect the oviposition behaviour of conspecifics. Here, we investigated for the first time the effe ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jinsphys.2022.104383

6. Localizing the Puke Button of Grasshoppers: Tactile Stimulation of Different Body Regions Influences the Regurgitation Response of Schistocerca Serialis Cubense (Orthoptera)

Author:
Jorge H. Medina-Duran; Amy Dickerson; Jordan Salomon; Chujun Li; Hojun Song
Source:
Journal of insect behavior 2022 v.35 no.4 pp. 82-91
ISSN:
0892-7553
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Schistocerca; abdomen; chemical composition; diet; digestive system; grasshoppers; head; herbivores; instars; metabolites; thorax;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... Regurgitation behavior is a defense strategy present in several insect orders where herbivorous prey may acquire secondary noxious metabolites from plants and store them to later orally excrete when threatened. Research on regurgitation has focused on its chemical composition, its relationship with diet, and its noxious effect on predators. However, virtually nothing is known about the proximal me ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10905-022-09801-8

7. Relationship Between the Duration of Death-Feigning and Temperature in Black and Red Elytral Types of a Polymorphic Ladybug, Harmonia axyridis

Author:
Tatsumi Kudo; Eisuke Hasegawa
Source:
Journal of insect behavior 2022 v.35 no.1-3 pp. 11-16
ISSN:
0892-7553
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Harmonia axyridis; antipredatory behavior; color; loci; opportunity costs; predation; selection pressure; temperature; tonic immobility;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Since predation is a strong selection pressure on prey, the later have evolved a variety of anti-predator behavior. Death-feigning is thought as one of anti-predator behaviors to escape from predation by temporarily stopping movement and appearing to be dead. Previous studies have shown that the duration and frequency of death-feigning varies with temperature. Body color may also affect those para ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10905-022-09795-3

8. Systematic analysis of olfactory protein–protein interactions network of fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster

Author:
Shuang Yang; WenJun Zhang
Source:
Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology 2022 v.110 no.2 pp. e21882
ISSN:
0739-4462
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Drosophila melanogaster; cluster analysis; fruit flies; glutathione transferase; insect biochemistry; models; odors; smell; topology;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Olfaction is one of the physiological traits of insect behavior. Insects have evolved a sophisticated olfactory system and use a combined coding strategy to process general odor. Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful model to reveal the molecular and cellular mechanisms of odor detection. Identifying new olfactory targets through complex interactions will contribute to a better understanding of th ...
DOI:
10.1002/arch.21882

9. Influence of Parasitoid States on the Propensity to Enter and the Stay in a Patch

Author:
Sheng Zhang; Bo Qian; Amna Ilyas; Xiao-meng Gong; Jing Xu; Peng-cheng Liu; Hao-yuan Hu
Source:
Journal of insect behavior 2022 v.35 no.1-3 pp. 56-64
ISSN:
0892-7553
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Drosophila; Trichopria drosophilae; biological control agents; endoparasites; fecundity; females; food availability; longevity; oviposition; pupae; wasps;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... Patch exploitation strategies have received considerable attention since the development of the marginal value theorem. As an excellent biological research object, parasitoids have been extensively studied in regard to patch exploitation, including the effect of parasitoid states. Longevity and fecundity are state-dependent traits that may affect foraging decisions, oviposition behavior and patch ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10905-022-09799-z

10. Toxic metals that interact with thiol groups and alteration in insect behavior

Author:
Cláudia S Oliveira; Pablo A Nogara; Luíza S Lima; Maria EA Galiciolli; Júlia V Souza; Michael Aschner; João BT Rocha
Source:
Current opinion in insect science 2022 v.52 pp. 100923
ISSN:
2214-5745
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Drosophila melanogaster; biosphere; cadmium; copper; humans; insects; lead; memory; mercury; models; population dynamics; thiols; toxicity;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... Toxic metals, such as mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and copper (Cu), are widespread in the biosphere, and human activities have contributed to their continuous release into the ecosystems. Metal-induced toxicity has been extensively studied in mammals; however, the effects of these metals on insects’ behavior have been explored to far lesser degree. As the main mechanism of toxicity, the ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cois.2022.100923

11. Behavioral Response of the Leaf-Cutting Ant Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) to Trichoderma sp.

Author:
K. M. Cotazo-Calambas; Andrea Niño-Castro; S. M. Valencia-Giraldo; J. S. Gómez-Díaz; J. Montoya-Lerma
Source:
Journal of insect behavior 2022 v.35 no.4 pp. 92-102
ISSN:
0892-7553
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Atta cephalotes; Trichoderma; antagonists; fungi; gardens; grooming (animal behavior); hygiene; leaf-cutting ants; mutualism; nests;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... Species of the genus Trichoderma sp. are used to control leaf-cutting ants. However, knowledge about the collective immune responses of ants against this antagonist is scarce. Therefore, this study assessed the frequency of hygienic behaviors deployed by medium workers of Atta cephalotes. For this purpose, suspensions of Trichoderma sp. spores were sprayed on sub-colonies composed of workers and a ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10905-022-09800-9

12. Aridity, but not disturbance, reduces the specialization and modularity of plant–insect herbivore interaction networks in Caatinga dry forest

Author:
Pedro E. Santos-Neto; Xavier Arnan; José D. Ribeiro-Neto; Rainer Wirth; Inara R. Leal
Source:
Journal of insect conservation 2022 v.26 no.2 pp. 175-189
ISSN:
1366-638X
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; botanical composition; caatinga; dry environmental conditions; dry forests; habitat destruction; phytophagous insects; plant communities; species richness; Brazil;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Plant–herbivore networks comprise over 40% of the global biodiversity and are negatively impacted by habitat loss and fragmentation. However, the extent to which these networks are affected by chronic anthropogenic disturbances and aridity, the most common threats to biodiversity in dry forests, remain unknown. In this study, we examined plant and insect herbivore communities and their interaction ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10841-022-00376-5

13. Metal ions in the physiology of insects

Author:
Fanis Missirlis; Pedro L Oliveira
Source:
Current opinion in insect science 2022 v.54 pp. 100965
ISSN:
2214-5745
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Drosophila melanogaster; cadmium; copper; environmental exposure; heavy metals; heme; insects; iron; lead; manganese; methylmercury compounds; reproduction; toxicology; zinc;     Show all 15 Subjects
Abstract:
... The 2022 Molecular Physiology volume of Current Opinion in Insect Science offers an overview of transition-metal ion (iron, copper, manganese, and zinc) biology and nonessential heavy metal ion (cadmium, lead, and methylmercury) toxicology in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster and in other insect species. An article on ticks serves as an informative evolutionary comparator for iron and hem ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cois.2022.100965

14. Molecular and in vitro biochemical assessment of chemosensory protein 10 from brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens at acidic pH

Author:
Muhammad Irfan WARIS; Aneela YOUNAS; Rana Muhammad Kaleem ULLAH; Fatima RASOOL; Muhammad Muzammal ADEEL; Man-qun WANG
Source:
Journal of integrative agriculture 2022 v.21 no.3 pp. 781-796
ISSN:
2095-3119
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; 2-tridecanone; Nilaparvata lugens; agriculture; farnesene; fluorescence; hydrophobicity; insects; ligands; lymph; odors; pH; pests; phloem; rice; sap; sensilla;     Show all 17 Subjects
Abstract:
... Chemosensory proteins (CSPs) are important molecular components of the insect olfactory system, which are involved in capturing, binding, and transporting hydrophobic odour molecules across the sensillum in sensillar lymph in regulating insect behavior. This protein family (CSPs) is also involved in many other systems that are not linked to olfactory receptors in olfactory sensilla. The brown plan ...
DOI:
10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63494-3

15. Dual nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit gene knockouts reveal limits to functional redundancy

Author:
Wei Chen; Xinyue Gu; Ying Ting Yang; Philip Batterham; Trent Perry
Source:
Pesticide biochemistry and physiology 2022 v.184 pp. 105118
ISSN:
0048-3575
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Drosophila melanogaster; adults; brain; genes; imidacloprid; inflation; insecticide resistance; insects; locomotion; longevity; nicotinic receptors; penetrance; phenotype; pupae; sleep; stoichiometry;     Show all 17 Subjects
Abstract:
... The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunit gene family consists of ten members in Drosophila melanogaster. The mature nAChR is a pentamer assembled from these subunits. Despite recent advances in the in vitro expression of some receptor subunit combinations (nAChR subtypes), the in vivo combinations and stoichiometry of these subtypes remains poorly defined. In addition, there are many p ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.pestbp.2022.105118

16. Azobenzene‐isoxazoline as photopharmacological ligand for optical control of insect GABA receptor and behavior

Author:
Zhi Qiao; Yunfan Ji; Yongchao Zhang; Zhong Li; Zhiping Xu; Xusheng Shao
Source:
Pest management science 2022 v.78 no.2 pp. 467-474
ISSN:
1526-498X
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Blattodea; Culicidae; Mythimna separata; chlorides; gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors; insecticidal properties; insects; irradiation; larvicides; lethal concentration 50; ligands; ultraviolet radiation;     Show all 13 Subjects
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Photopharmacology is a fast‐growing photonics‐based technology, which realizes the high‐resolution regulation of drugs in time and space through light. The purpose of this research was to introduce photochromic groups into the isoxazoline structure to realize the regulation of γ‐Aminobutyric acid receptors (GABARs) targeting insect behavior. RESULTS: Azobenzene‐Fluralaner analogs ABF02 ...
DOI:
10.1002/ps.6641

17. Recent approaches to study the neural bases of complex insect behavior

Author:
Michael Traner; Rishabh Chandak; Baranidharan Raman
Source:
Current opinion in insect science 2021 v.48 pp. 18-25
ISSN:
2214-5745
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; insects; instrumentation;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Recent advances in biocompatible materials, miniaturized instrumentation, advanced computational algorithms, and genetic tools have enabled the development of novel methods and approaches to quantify the behavior of individuals or groups of animals. In conjunction with technologies that allow simultaneous monitoring of neural responses, quantitative studies of complex behaviors can reveal tighter ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cois.2021.07.004

18. CRISPR‐mediated mutagenesis of the odorant receptor co‐receptor (Orco) gene disrupts olfaction‐mediated behaviors in Bactrocera dorsalis

Author:
Li Xu; Hong‐Bo Jiang; Kai‐Yue Tang; Ying Yan; Marc F. Schetelig; Jin‐Jun Wang
Source:
Insect science 2022 v.29 no.5 pp. 1275-1286
ISSN:
1672-9609
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Bactrocera dorsalis; CRISPR-Cas systems; electroantennography; ethyl acetate; genes; insects; methyl eugenol; mutagenesis; mutants; octenol; odorant receptors; odors; oviposition; pests; smell;     Show all 16 Subjects
Abstract:
... Olfaction plays an essential role in insect behavior such as host location, foraging, mating, and oviposition. The odorant receptor co‐receptor (Orco) is an obligatory odorant receptor and indispensable in odor perception. Here, we characterized the Orco gene from the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), a notorious agriculture pest. The olfactory deficiency mutants were generated by ...
DOI:
10.1111/1744-7917.12997

19. Volatile organic compounds released by wheat as a result of striped shieldbug feeding and insect behaviour

Author:
Sebastian Sendel; Jan Bocianowski; Bogusław Buszewski; Magdalena Piesik; Chris A. Mayhew; Dariusz Piesik
Source:
Journal of applied entomology 2022 v.146 no.6 pp. 710-724
ISSN:
0931-2048
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Aelia acuminata; acetates; adults; biotic stress; entomology; females; indoles; insects; linalool; males; methyl salicylate; olfactometers; plant protection; spring wheat; volatile organic compounds;     Show all 16 Subjects
Abstract:
... The most popular plant protection method is chemical; however, this is often connected with repeated treatments. Therefore, eco‐friendly strategies need to be investigated. A good alternative is to use the natural repellent properties of plants. The aims of this study were to determine how adult striped shieldbugs (Aelia acuminata L.) feeding on spring wheat plants affect the emission of volatile ...
DOI:
10.1111/jen.12997

20. Visual Responses of Flight-Dispersing Spotted Lanternflies, Lycorma delicatula toward a Tall Vertical Silhouette in a Vineyard

Author:
T. C. Baker; A. J. Myrick; M. S. Wolfin; Y. Wang
Source:
Journal of insect behavior 2021 v.34 no.1-2 pp. 49-60
ISSN:
0892-7553
Subject:
insect behavior,   etc   ; Lycorma delicatula; telephones; vineyards; Pennsylvania;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... A large accumulation of several hundred actively flight-dispersing spotted lanternflies Lycorma delicatula was found on an isolated single telephone pole in a vineyard in Eastern Pennsylvania, USA. Many of the lanternflies flying across the vineyard very near to the pole turned toward and landed on it in an apparent visually mediated response to the tall vertical silhouette, whereas others flew pa ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10905-021-09766-0