Is colour an important factor influencing the behaviour of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea)?

Title:

Is colour an important factor influencing the behaviour of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea)?

Creator:

Kočíková, Lenka, Miklisová, Dana, Čanády, Alexander, and Panigaj, Lubomír

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:52453208-547a-47ba-8680-97c748ef9a7e
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Subject:

Zoologie, zoologie, entomologie, Lepidoptera, colour preference, water pan traps, Western Carpathians, 2, and 59

Type:

article, články, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Coloured Moericke water pan traps were used to determine the effect of colour on the preference behaviour of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea) over the period 2001 to 2003 in grassland habitats in Eastern Slovakia (Košická kotlina basin). A total of 912 individuals belonging to 53 species and 7 families of butterflies were trapped. The colour of the traps that caught the most butterflies was white, followed by blue, violet, yellow and finally the least were caught by red coloured traps. Ordination analysis showed that some butterfly families and species were more likely to be caught by traps of a specific colour. Measurements of the wavelengths of the colours used revealed that butterflies preferred short-wavelengths light. The effect of colour on the catches did not differ significantly among the sites. The butterflies were more likely to be caught by traps of a certain colour even though the other features of the traps were the same., Lenka Kočíková ... [et al.]., and Obsahuje seznam literatury

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2012 Volume:109 | Number:3

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