Attractiveness of thermally different, uniformly black targets to horseflies: Tabanus tergestinus prefers sunlit warm shiny dark targets

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

(2019) Tim Caro et al.   PLoS One

Do zebra stripes influence thermoregulation?

(2019) Alison Cobb et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

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

Polarized light pollution of matte solar panels: anti-reflective photovoltaics reduce polarized light pollution but benefit only some aquatic insects

(2016) Dénes Száz et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

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

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

Unexpected Attraction of Polarotactic Water-Leaving Insects to Matt Black Car Surfaces: Mattness of Paintwork Cannot Eliminate the Polarized Light Pollution of Black Cars

(2014) Miklos Blaho et al.   PLoS One

A horizontally polarizing liquid trap enhances the tabanid-capturing efficiency of the classic canopy trap

(2013) Á. Egri et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

Olfactory and behavioural responses of tabanid horseflies to octenol, phenols and aged horse urine

(2013) F. BALDACCHINO et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

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

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

Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of females of two species of tabanid to volatiles in urine of different mammals

(2012) F. BALDACCHINO et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY 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

How can horseflies be captured by solar panels? A new concept of tabanid traps using light polarization and electricity produced by photovoltaics

(2012) Miklós Blahó et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Synergism between ammonia and phenols for Hybomitra tabanids in northern and temperate Canada

(2011) S. MIHOK et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

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 and feeding behaviour of tabanid flies on horses, kangaroos and pigs

(2010) M.O. Muzari et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

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

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

(2008) Gábor Horváth et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN