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Responses of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), to carbon dioxide and host odours. I. Activation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

M. L. Warnes  and
L. H. Finlayson
M. L. Warnes
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, The University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
L. H. Finlayson
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, The University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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Abstract

Laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of carbon dioxide and breath odours on the flight activity of Stomoxys calcitrans (L.). The flies responded to an increase in carbon dioxide concentration by an increase in flight activity (measured as the number of flights or the number of take-offs). The extent of this response was dependent on the period of starvation before exposure and the level of the increase in the carbon dioxide concentration. Flies rapidly habituated or adapted to new levels of carbon dioxide. Expired human breath elicited a greater increase in flight activity than would be predicted from its carbon dioxide content, and it was shown that the increased activity was caused by breath odours acting synergistically with an increase in the carbon dioxide concentration.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 519 - 528
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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