Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack

Striped bodypainting protects against horseflies

(2019) Gábor Horváth et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Benefits of zebra stripes: Behaviour of tabanid flies around zebras and horses

(2019) Tim Caro et al.   PLoS One

Experimental evidence that stripes do not cool zebras

(2018) Gábor Horváth et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Dazzle camouflage, target tracking, and the confusion effect

(2016) Benedict G. Hogan et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

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

How the zebra got its stripes: a problem with too many solutions

(2015) B. Larison et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The function of zebra stripes

(2014) Tim Caro et al.   Nature Communications

A new tabanid trap applying a modified concept of the old flypaper: Linearly polarising sticky black surfaces as an effective tool to catch polarotactic horseflies

(2013) Ádám Egri et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

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

Motion camouflage induced by zebra stripes

(2013) Martin J. How et al.   ZOOLOGY

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

Economic Impact of Stable Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) on Dairy and Beef Cattle Production

(2012) David B. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

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

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

Insecticide resistance in the horn fly: alternative control strategies

(2008) M. P. OYARZÚN et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2008) Gábor Horváth et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN