Striped bodypainting protects against horseflies

Characterization of tabanid flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) in South Africa and Zambia and detection of protozoan parasites they are harbouring

(2017) MOETI O. TAIOE et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Painted in red: In search of alternative explanations for European Palaeolithic cave art

(2017) Ma Ángeles Medina-Alcaide et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Why do horseflies need polarization vision for host detection? Polarization helps tabanid flies to select sunlit dark host animals from the dark patches of the visual environment

(2017) Gábor Horváth et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans

(2016) Amanda D. Melin et al.   PLoS One

A tsetse and tabanid fly survey of African great apes habitats reveals the presence of a novel trypanosome lineage but the absence of Trypanosoma brucei

(2015) Jan Votýpka et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

The effect of weather variables on the flight activity of horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) in the continental climate of Hungary

(2015) Tamás Herczeg et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Evaluating the Photoprotective Effects of Ochre on Human Skin by In Vivo SPF Assessment: Implications for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Dispersal

(2015) Riaan F. Rifkin et al.   PLoS One

Concordance on zebra stripes: a comment on Larisonet al.(2015): Table 1.

(2015) Tim Caro et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Seasonality and daily activity of male and female tabanid flies monitored in a Hungarian hill-country pasture by new polarization traps and traditional canopy traps

(2014) Tamás Herczeg et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

The function of zebra stripes

(2014) Tim Caro et al.   Nature Communications

The evolution and biogeography of the austral horse fly tribe Scionini (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae) inferred from multiple mitochondrial and nuclear genes

(2013) B.D. Lessard et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Stripes disrupt odour attractiveness to biting horseflies: Battle between ammonia, CO2, and colour pattern for dominance in the sensory systems of host-seeking tabanids

(2013) Miklós Blahó et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Anzomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae: Scionini): a new genus of Australian and New Zealand horse fly, including the description of three new species

(2012) Bryan D. Lessard et al.   INSECT SYSTEMATICS & EVOLUTION

Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least attractive: an advantage of zebra stripes

(2012) A. Egri et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

New kind of polarotaxis governed by degree of polarization: attraction of tabanid flies to differently polarizing host animals and water surfaces

(2012) Ádám Egri et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Spottier Targets Are Less Attractive to Tabanid Flies: On the Tabanid-Repellency of Spotty Fur Patterns

(2012) Miklos Blaho et al.   PLoS One

Use of red ochre by early Neandertals

(2012) W. Roebroeks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2011) C. S. Henshilwood et al.   SCIENCE

An unexpected advantage of whiteness in horses: the most horsefly-proof horse has a depolarizing white coat

(2010) G. Horvath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Alighting of Tabanidae and muscids on natural and simulated hosts in the Sudan

(2009) M.M. Mohamed-Ahmed et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Degrees of polarization of reflected light eliciting polarotaxis in dragonflies (Odonata), mayflies (Ephemeroptera) and tabanid flies (Tabanidae)

(2009) György Kriska et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

(2009) F. d'Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ventral polarization vision in tabanids: horseflies and deerflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) are attracted to horizontally polarized light

(2008) Gábor Horváth et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN