Published in PeerJ
Ibalia leucospoides (Hymenoptera: Ibaliidae) is a larval parasitoid that has been widely introduced as a biological control agent for the invasive woodwasp,Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) in the Southern Hemisphere. In this study, the courtship behavior and identificaion of sex pheromones are described for I. leucospoides under laboratory c...
Published in Ecotoxicology (London, England)
Insects are exposed to cadmium stress since cadmium pollution has increasingly become a serious global environmental issue. However, until now few studies have paid attention to the effect of heavy metals on insect reproductive behaviors. In our study, the courtship behaviors, mating behaviors and fecundity of beet armyworm Spodoptera exigua (Lepid...
Published in Bio-protocol
Songbirds, such as the zebra finch, are a popular animal model for studying the neural basis of vocal and complex skill learning. Adult male zebra finches produce courtship song toward females (referred to as ‘directed song’) and recording and analyzing sounds of directed song along with underlying neural activity is important for investigating beh...
The mating behavior of the moth Atheloca subrufella Hulst, 1887 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) was investigated in laboratory arenas. The descriptions of courtship and copulation in males and females were based on direct observations of virgin couples. The courtship and copulation bioassays results comprise several behavior patterns such as antennation, ...
Published in Chemosphere
Endocrine disruptor chemicals induce adverse effects to animals' development, reproduction and behavior in environment. We investigated the effects of fluorene-9-bisphenol (BHPF), one substitute of bisphenol A, on courtship behavior and exploratory behavior of adult zebrafish. Customized apparatus was used to evaluate courtship behavior. The result...
Published in The Science of Nature
Behavioral studies of gynandromorphism, also called as sex mosaic, contribute to the understanding of the relationship between morphological gender and sexual identity of an animal. Few studies have focused on the behaviors of gynandromorphic spiders because of a scarcity of gynandromorphic individuals in the field. In this study, we collected a gy...
The mating behavior of the moth Atheloca subrufella Hulst, 1887 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) was investigated in laboratory arenas. The descriptions of courtship and copulation in males and females were based on direct observations of virgin couples. The courtship and copulation bioassays results comprise several behavior patterns such as antennation, ...
Published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
AbstractTheory suggests that males should adjust courtship in response to a variety of factors, including female quality, the risk of male-male competition, and often in spiders, the risk of sexual cannibalism. Male black widow spiders demonstrate a behavior during courtship whereby they tear down and bundle a female’s web in addition to providing ...
Published in Journal of Ethology
Behavioral changes during early development provide useful insights into the internal mechanisms that generate complex behavior expressed by mature individuals. At the same time, social conditions during early adult phase can influence behavior in later stages of development even in holometabolous insects. In this study, age-dependent changes in co...
Published in Journal of Chemical Ecology
Sex-specific chemical secretions have been widely used as diagnostic characters in chemotaxonomy. The taxonomically confused group of bumblebees has reaped the benefit of this approach through the analyses of cephalic labial gland secretions (CLGS). Most of currently available CLGS descriptions concern species from the West-Palearctic region but fe...
