Host‐foraging stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans, are preferentially attracted to objects with both visual and thermal host‐like characteristics

Species-Specificity in Thermopreference and CO2-Gated Heat-Seeking in Culex Mosquitoes

(2022) Joanna M. Reinhold et al.   Insects

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

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

(2022) Dénes Száz et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Stable fly activity is associated with dairy management practices and seasonal weather conditions

(2021) Wagdy R. ElAshmawy et al.   PLoS One

Electric field detection as floral cue in hoverfly pollination

(2021) Shahmshad Ahmed Khan et al.   Scientific Reports

Mosquito heat seeking is driven by an ancestral cooling receptor

(2020) Chloe Greppi et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2020) Gábor Horváth et al.   PLoS One

A Historical Review of Management Options Used against the Stable Fly (Diptera: Muscidae)

(2020) David Cook   Insects

General Visual and Contingent Thermal Cues Interact to Elicit Attraction in Female Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

(2019) Molly Z. Liu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ticks home in on body heat: A new understanding of Haller’s organ and repellent action

(2019) Ann L. Carr et al.   PLoS One

Risk factors affecting dairy cattle protective grouping behavior, commonly known as bunching, against Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) on California dairies

(2019) Wagdy R. El Ashmawy et al.   PLoS One

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

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

What does heat tell a mosquito? Characterization of the orientation behaviour of Aedes aegypti towards heat sources

(2017) Paula F. Zermoglio et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Energetics of stress: linking plasma cortisol levels to metabolic rate in mammals

(2016) Catherine G. Haase et al.   Biology Letters

Short communication: Relationship between serum cortisol concentration and defensive behavioral responses of dairy cows exposed to natural infestation by stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans

(2016) I. Vitela-Mendoza et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Visual and olfactory enhancement of stable fly trapping

(2016) Junwei J Zhu et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Distinct combinations of variant ionotropic glutamate receptors mediate thermosensation and hygrosensation in Drosophila

(2016) Zachary A Knecht et al.   eLife

Multi-Cue Integration: How Female Mosquitoes Locate a Human Host

(2015) Ring T. Cardé   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mosquitoes Use Vision to Associate Odor Plumes with Thermal Targets

(2015) Floris van Breugel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Thermal effect of blood feeding in the telmophagous fly Glossina morsitans morsitans

(2015) Chloé Lahondère et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

The cation channel TRPA1 tunes mosquito thermotaxis to host temperatures

(2015) Román A Corfas et al.   eLife

Multimodal Integration of Carbon Dioxide and Other Sensory Cues Drives Mosquito Attraction to Humans

(2014) Conor J. McMeniman et al.   CELL

Close encounters: contributions of carbon dioxide and human skin odour to finding and landing on a host inAedes aegypti

(2014) EMERSON S. LACEY et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Behavioural responses of diverse insect groups to electric stimuli

(2013) Rosanna Wijenberg et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Response to heat in Rhodnius prolixus: The role of the thermal background

(2011) Nadine Fresquet et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Ultra-prolonged activation of CO2-sensing neurons disorients mosquitoes

(2011) Stephanie Lynn Turner et al.   NATURE

Behavioural and physiological state dependency of host seeking in the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus

(2009) A. Bodin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

State-dependency of host-seeking in Rhodnius prolixus: The post-ecdysis time

(2009) Aurélie Bodin et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Microfluidic photomechanic infrared receptors in a pyrophilous flat bug

(2008) Anke Schmitz et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Infrared radiation from hot cones on cool conifers attracts seed-feeding insects

(2008) S. Takacs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES