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Volume 37 #2

Contents

  1. Problems and prospects of new methods of light stimulation in visual rehabilitation
  2. Compression in the auditory system
  3. The response of adult adzuki been borer Ostrinia scapulalis to light stimuli in a wind tunnel
  4. Analysis of the gaze fixations in performance of mental recall of the route on a city map. Effects of landmark type and gender
  5. Electroretinographic examinations of the crew members of the 8-month international experiment SIRIUS 20/21
  6. Forward masking of the auditory evoked potentials in a dolphin at monaural and dichotic auditory stimulation: implications for the preceding effect and biosonar
  7. Classification of crops by NDVI time series of reduced dimensionality

The response of adult adzuki been borer Ostrinia scapulalis to light stimuli in a wind tunnel

© 2023 M. I. Zhukovskaya, O. G. Selitskaya, A. V. Schenikova, A. A. Miltsyn, I. V. Grushevaya, A. G. Kononchuk, A. N. Frolov

I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, RAS 194223 St. Petersburg, Tores ave., 44, Russia
All-Russian Research Institute for Plant Protection 196608 St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Podbelskogo st., 3, Russia

Received 19 Jan 2023

The attraction of nocturnal insects to light is a known phenomenon with unknown physiological mechanisms. Moths of the pyralid family are characterized by the most pronounced response to light, but the spectral preferences of these insects have not been studied. The adzuki been borers Ostrinia scapualis, which live on dicotyledonous plants, are the ancestral form for the Asian and European corn borers, widespread pests of corn. Using a wind tunnel modified to deliver light stimuli, we tested the responses of males and females to light stimuli with wavelengths of 532, 440 and 365 nm at 2 lux, capable of stimulating photoreceptors of compound eyes (with maximum sensitivity of 352, 413, 480 and 530 nm) as well as simple ocelli, whose sensitivity had the main peak in ultraviolet and additional one in the green spectrum (360 and 520 nm). It turned out that ultraviolet was the most attractive stimulus. A small percentage of insects responded to green light, but showed a freezing reaction near the light source. The least attractive was blue light, which also caused freezes. Thus, the flight of O. scapulalis adults is induced by short-wavelength light, the response is more consistent with the sensitivity of the ocelli than the compound eyes; blue and green light leads to a masking effect.

Key words: adzuki been borer, Ostrinia scapulalis, response to light, ultraviolet, photoreception

DOI: 10.31857/S0235009223020063  EDN: QTCPSV

Cite: Zhukovskaya M. I., Selitskaya O. G., Schenikova A. V., Miltsyn A. A., Grushevaya I. V., Kononchuk A. G., Frolov A. N. Reaktsiya imago ognevki ostrinia scapulalis na svetovye stimuly v vetrovom tonnele [The response of adult adzuki been borer ostrinia scapulalis to light stimuli in a wind tunnel]. Sensornye sistemy [Sensory systems]. 2023. V. 37(2). P. 130–137 (in Russian). doi: 10.31857/S0235009223020063

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