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Why do red and dark-coloured cars lure aquatic insects? The attraction of water insects to car paintwork explained by reflection–polarization signals

We reveal here the visual ecological reasons for the phenomenon that aquatic insects often land on red, black and dark-coloured cars. Monitoring the numbers of aquatic beetles and bugs attracted to shiny black, white, red and yellow horizontal plastic sheets, we found that red and black reflectors a...

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Autori principali: Kriska, György, Csabai, Zoltán, Boda, Pál, Malik, Péter, Horváth, Gábor
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Royal Society 2006
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1634927/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16769639
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3500
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