Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2brh9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T20:54:31.975Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

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

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
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Experiments were carried out in a slow speed wind tunnel and in a moving air observation chamber on anemotactic and visual responses of Stomoxys calcitrans (L.). An increase in carbon dioxide concentration elicited an anemotactic response, which was enhanced by odours from expired human breath and odours from a live guineapig. Acetone vapour also elicited an anemotactic response, but acetic acid was repellent. The response to visual targets increased in proportion to the increase in flight activity induced by raising the concentration of carbon dioxide in the airstream. Cattle sebum had an arrestant effect but also elicited further searching activity.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , December 1985 , pp. 717 - 727
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Adams, J. R. & Forgash, A. J. (1966). The location of the contact chemoreceptors of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (Diptera: Muscidae).—Ann. ent. Soc. Am. 59, 133–141.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bidgood, H. M. (1980). Host location in Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (the stable fly).—146 pp. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Birmingham, UK.Google Scholar
Brady, J. (1972). The visual responsiveness of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans Westw. (Glossinidae) to moving objects: the effect of hunger. sex, host odour and stimulus characteristics.—Bull. ent. Res. 62, 257–279.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bursell, E. (1984a). Effects of host odour on the behaviour of tsetse.—Insect Sci. Applic. 5, 345–349.Google Scholar
Bursell, E. (1984b). Observations on the orientation of tsetse flies (Glossina pallidipes) to windborne odours.—Physiol. Entomol. 9, 133–137.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crofford, O. B. (1976). Acetone in breath.—Trans. Am. clin. clim. Ass. 88, 128–139.Google Scholar
David, C. T., Kennedy, J. S. & Ludlow, A. R. (1983). Finding of a sex pheromone source by gypsy moths released in the field.—Nature, Lond. 303, 804–806.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gatehouse, A. G. (1969). The influence of some chemical and physical stimuli on the feeding and oviposition behaviour of Stomoxys calcitrans (L.).—200 pp. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. London.Google Scholar
Gatehouse, A. G. & Lewis, C. T. (1973). Host location behaviour of Stomoxys calcitrans.—Entomologia exp. appl. 16, 275–290.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gillies, M. T. & Wilkes, T. J. (1969). A comparison of the range of attraction of animal baits and of carbon dioxide for some West African mosquitoes.—Bull. ent. Res. 59, 441–456.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gillies, M. T. & Wilkes, T. J. (1970). The range of attraction of single baits for some West African mosquitoes.—Bull. ent. Res. 60, 225–235.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gillies, M. T. & Wilkes, T. J. (1972). The range of attraction of animal baits and carbon dioxide for mosquitoes. Studies in a freshwater area of West Africa.—Bull. ent. Res. 61, 389–404.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gillies, M. T. & Wilkes, T. J. (1974). The range of attraction of birds as baits for some West African mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae).—Bull. ent. Res. 63, 573–581.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoy, J. B. (1970). Trapping the stable fly by using CO2 or CO as attractants.—J. econ. Ent. 63, 792–795.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, O. T., Lomer, R. A. & Howse, P. E. (1981). Responses of male Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata, to trimedlure in a wind tunnel of novel design.—Physiol. Entomol. 6, 175–181.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kellogg, F. E. & Wright, R. H. (1962). The guidance of flying insects. V. Mosquito attraction.—Can. Ent. 94, 1009–1016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kennedy, J. S. (1977). Behaviorally discriminating assays of attractants and repellents.—pp. 215–229 in Shorey, H. H. & McKelvey, J. J. Jr. (Eds.). Chemical control of insect behavior: theory and application.—414 pp. New York, Wiley.Google Scholar
Kennedy, J. S. (1983). Zigzagging and casting as a programmed response to wind-borne odour: a review.—Physiol. Entomol. 8, 109–120.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mayer, M. S. & James, J. D. (1969). Attraction of Aedes aegypti (L.): responses to human arms, carbon dioxide and air currents in a new type of olfactometer.—Bull. ent. Res. 58, 629–642.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parr, H. C. M. (1962). Studies on Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) in Uganda, East Africa. 11.—Notes on life-history and behaviour.—Bull. ent. Res. 53, 437–443.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pospíšil, J. & Žďárek, J. (1965). On the visual orientation of the stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans L.) to colours.—Acta entomol. bohemoslov. 62, 85–91.Google Scholar
Schmidt-Nielsen, K. (1975). Animal physiology: adaptation and environment.—Cambridge, University Press.Google Scholar
Schreck, C. E., Posey, K. & Gouck, H. K. (1975). Evaluation of the electrocutor grid trap baited with carbon dioxide against the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae).—J. med. Entomol. 12, 338–340.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Stones, L. C. (1976). The stable fly.—pp. 561–599 in Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (Ed.). UFAW handbook on the care and management of laboratory animals.—5th edn.635 pp. Edinburgh, Churchill-Livingstone (leaflet no. 45).Google Scholar
Turner, D. A. (1971). Olfactory perception of live hosts and carbon dioxide by the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans orientalis Vanderplank.—Bull. ent. Res. 61, 75–96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vale, G. A. (1974). The responses of tsetse flies (Diptera, Glossinidae) to mobile and stationary baits.—Bull. ent. Res. 64, 545–588.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vale, G. A. (1979). Field responses of tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) to odours of men, lactic acid and carbon dioxide.—Bull. ent. Res. 69, 459–467.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vale, G. A. (1980). Field studies of the responses of tsetse flies (Glossinidae) and other Diptera to carbon dioxide, acetone and other chemicals.—Bull. ent. Res. 70, 563–570.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vale, G. A. (1984). The responses of Glossina (Glossinidae) and other Diptera to odour plumes in the field.—Bull. ent. Res. 74, 143–152.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Warnes, M. L. (1984). Olfactory aspects of host-location behaviour in the stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans (L.)).—190 pp. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Birmingham, UK.Google Scholar
Warnes, M. L. & Finlayson, L. H. (1985). Responses of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), to carbon dioxide and host odours. I. Activation.—Bull. ent. Res. 75, 519–527.CrossRefGoogle Scholar