Diurnal patterns of postfeeding larval dispersal in carrion blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

Title:

Diurnal patterns of postfeeding larval dispersal in carrion blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

Creator:

Kočárek, Petr

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:a2aa3c3f-3aeb-42f3-85ce-1bf3cf5483a1
uuid:a2aa3c3f-3aeb-42f3-85ce-1bf3cf5483a1

Subject:

Diurnal activity, circadian rhythms, postfeeding dispersal, larvae, carrion, Calliphora vomitoria, Lucilia caesar, and Diptera

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

A study of the diurnal rhythms in the postfeeding dispersal of the larvae of two coexisting carrion blowfly species, Calliphora vomitoria and Lucilia caesar, from corpses was conducted in the field. Larvae of both species dispersed exclusively at night. The emigration of white coloured larvae is risky. By dispersing at night the larvae minimise interactions with diurnal and crepuscular predators.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2001 Volume:98 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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