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  • Effect of substrate temperature on behavioural plasticity in antlion larvae
    Klokočovnik, Vesna, 1981- ; Hauptman, Gregor ; Devetak, Dušan
    Temperature is of crucial importance, affecting all aspects of insect life such as survival, development and daily activity patterns, and consequently behaviour. In the present study we evaluated the ... effect of temperature on the behavioural plasticity of antlion larvae, the sit-and-wait predators, which are considerably more dependent on local habitat conditions. We provided ethological descriptions of pit construction and feeding behaviour. An increase in temperature led to greater activity and consequently to greater frequency of sand tossing during pit construction. Larvae constructed bigger pits at higher temperatures, but required less time than at lower temperatures, when the resulting pits were the smallest. At low temperature, larvae required more time for feeding, and behaviour followed a core pattern with little variety, in comparison to behaviour at high temperatures. Two behavioural patterns occurred only at the highest temperature: 'relocation' and 'submergence', presumably in response to high temperatures.
    Vir: Behaviour. - ISSN 0005-7959 (Vol. 153, issue 1, 2016, str. 31-48)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2016
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 21695496
    DOI

vir: Behaviour. - ISSN 0005-7959 (Vol. 153, issue 1, 2016, str. 31-48)
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