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

Sometimes Scientists Get the Flu. Wrong…!

(2017) Matteo Marcantonio et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

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

Tabanids: Neglected subjects of research, but important vectors of disease agents!

(2014) Frédéric Baldacchino et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Spatial and temporal distribution of Tabanidae in the Pyrenees Mountains: the influence of altitude and landscape structure

(2013) F. Baldacchino et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Bremsen-Fauna von drei verschiedenen Waldgesellschaften in den kroatischen Donau-Auen (Diptera: Tabanidae)

(2013) A. M Krćmar et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA GENERALIS

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

Preliminary list of horse flies (Diptera, Tabanidae) of Serbia

(2011) Stjepan Krcmar   ZooKeys

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