Blood-seeking horseflies prefer vessel-imitating temperature gradients on host-mimicking targets: Experimental corroboration of a new explanation of the visual unattractiveness of zebras to tabanids

Sunlit zebra stripes may confuse the thermal perception of blood vessels causing the visual unattractiveness of zebras to horseflies

(2022) Péter Takács et al.   Scientific Reports

New materials for improving catches of horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Nzi traps

(2021) S. Mihok et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

A new argument against cooling by convective air eddies formed above sunlit zebra stripes

(2021) Ádám Pereszlényi et al.   Scientific Reports

Horsefly reactions to black surfaces: attractiveness to male and female tabanids versus surface tilt angle and temperature

(2020) Gábor Horváth et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Why do biting horseflies prefer warmer hosts? tabanids can escape easier from warmer targets

(2020) Gábor Horváth et al.   PLoS One

Zebra stripes, tabanid biting flies and the aperture effect

(2020) Martin J. How et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

(2019) Tomoki Kojima et al.   PLoS One

Horsefly object-directed polarotaxis is mediated by a stochastically distributed ommatidial subtype in the ventral retina

(2019) Andrej Meglič et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Infrared Thermography: Current Applications in Equine Medicine

(2018) Maria Soroko et al.   JOURNAL OF EQUINE VETERINARY SCIENCE

Experimental evidence that stripes do not cool zebras

(2018) Gábor Horváth et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contrasting coloration in terrestrial mammals

(2008) T. Caro   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES