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Sensory ecology of feeding in the hummingbird hawkmoth Macroglossum stellatarum (Lepidoptera : Sphingidae)

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Summary, in English

The European hummingbird hawkmoth, Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus 1758), drinks nectar while hovering in front of flowers of all colours, odours, sizes and shapes. Naive moths orient predominantly towards visual stimuli and prefer blue flowers with a radial pattern and a central contrasting spot. Hummingbird hawkmoths have trichromatic colour vision and can learn any colour and different patterns and sizes of flowers. Odour learning, however, depends on flower colour and docs, not take place when the colour is very attractive on its own.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

97-110

Publication/Series

Entomologia Generalis

Volume

29

Issue

2-4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

E. Schweizerbart Science Publishers

Topic

  • Zoology

Keywords

  • olfaction
  • nectar
  • colour preference
  • learning
  • colour vision

Status

Published

Research group

  • Lund Vision Group

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0171-8177