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Volume 37 #3

Contents

  1. Experimental methods to study the sound source localization by distance in humans
  2. Retinal electronic prostheses
  3. Providing Reproducibility and objective control in computer measurement of fusion reserves
  4. Behavioural responses of cockroaches Periplaneta americana L. to short and long wavelength light in a wind tunnel
  5. Effect of octopamine on the frequency tuning of the auditory system in Culex pipiens pipiens mosquito (Diptera, Culicidae)
  6. Inertial mass in the balance body of Pomacea Diffusa. Experiment on the biosatellite “Bion-11”
  7. Discrimination of rippled spectra in listeners with hearing loss at two experimental paradigms

Behavioural responses of cockroaches Periplaneta americana L. to short and long wavelength light in a wind tunnel

© 2023 M. I. Zhukovskaya, A. V. Shchenikova, O. G. Selitskaya, A. A. Miltsyn, E. S. Novikova, A. N. Frolov

Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences 104223 St. Petersburg, Thorez Ave, 44, Russia
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Russian Academy of Sciences St. 196608 St. Petersburg – Pushkin, Podbelskogo road, 3, Russia

Received 15 May 2023

The behavioural responses of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana to short-wavelength and longwavelength light were studied in a wind tunnel. Initial directional movement towards the light source was observed in response to both stimuli, but the latency in response to green light was significantly shorter. The cockroaches moving towards the UV light often returned to the less illuminated starting point, while this behaviour was not typical under green light. UV light often initiated masking, the behavior characteristic of the inactive, diurnal phase of the 24-hour cycle.

Key words: American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, light response, UV-light, green light, photoreception

DOI: 10.31857/S0235009223030083  EDN: UGWKWM

Cite: Zhukovskaya M. I., Shchenikova A. V., Selitskaya O. G., Miltsyn A. A., Novikova E. S., Frolov A. N. Povedencheskie reaktsii tarakanov periplaneta americana l. na korotko- i dlinnovolnovyi svet v vetrovom tonnele [Behavioural responses of cockroaches periplaneta americana l. to short and long wavelength light in a wind tunnel]. Sensornye sistemy [Sensory systems]. 2023. V. 37(3). P. 235–243 (in Russian). doi: 10.31857/S0235009223030083

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