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Behaviour towards an unpreferred colour: can green flowers attract foraging hawkmoths?

Published:2010-10-01 Issue:19 Volume:213 Page:3257-3262
ISSN:1477-9145
Container-title:Journal of Experimental Biology
language:en
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Author:

Balkenius Anna¹,Balkenius Christian²

Affiliation:

1. Chemical Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Chemical Ecology, Box 102, Vaxthusvagen 3, Alnarp 230 53, Sweden

2. Lund University Cognitive Science, Kungshuset, Lundagård, Lund 222 22, Sweden

Abstract

SUMMARY Naïve hawkmoths (Manduca sexta) learn from a single trial to approach and attempt to feed from an artificial flower of an innately unpreferred green colour even when a distractor flower with a preferred yellow colour is present. In some of the animals, the choice of the innately unpreferred colour during free-flight testing persists for several days despite not being rewarded and eventually leads to starvation. The results show that moths exhibit a very strong flower constancy that is not limited to the colours of nectar flowers.

Publisher

The Company of Biologists

Subject

Insect Science,Molecular Biology,Animal Science and Zoology,Aquatic Science,Physiology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Link

http://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-pdf/213/19/3257/1270490/3257.pdf

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