Wariness to colour patterns: birds versus European red-and-black insects

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/een.13060" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/een.13060</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.13060" target="_blank" >10.1111/een.13060</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wariness to colour patterns: birds versus European red-and-black insects

Original language description

1. A mimetic complex of red-and-black insects is proposed to occur in Central Europe. 2. In our study, we tested in isolation the importance of a colour pattern as the main factor responsible for the predator avoidance of the members of this putative mimetic complex by transferring the patterns of seven European red-and-black insects onto a palatable prey using paper stickers. Wild-caught adult great tits (Parus major) were used as the predators. 3. In general, the response of the tested birds to palatable prey carrying a conspicuous pattern differed from their responses to the real insect species demonstrated in previous studies. 4. The birds avoided the pattern of Pyrrhocoris apterus most often, putatively because of their rich individual experience with the real insect from the wild, since it is the most common amongst our chosen species. Other patterns were attacked similarly to the control, inconspicuous roach pattern. Obviously, these patterns did not discourage the birds from making a closer inspection of the offered prey and revealing the edible cockroach hidden underneath the coloured paper sticker. 5. We show that the method of transferring aposematic colour patterns to edible prey has substantial limitations when testing how predators generalise colour patterns within the mimetic complex.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ecological Entomology

ISSN

0307-6946

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

46

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1157-1164

UT code for WoS article

000661498600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85107890359