Trail Marking by Caterpillars of the Silverspot ButterflyDione Juno Huascuma

Alfonso Pescador-Rubio; Sergio G. Stanford-Camargo; Luis E Páez-Gerardo; Alberto J. Ramírez-Reyes; René A. Ibarra-Jiménez; Terrence D. Fitzgerald

doi:10.1673/031.011.5501

Trail Marking by Caterpillars of the Silverspot ButterflyDione Juno Huascuma

Journal of Insect Science ◽

10.1673/031.011.5501 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 11 (55) ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Alfonso Pescador-Rubio ◽

Sergio G. Stanford-Camargo ◽

Luis E Páez-Gerardo ◽

Alberto J. Ramírez-Reyes ◽

René A. Ibarra-Jiménez ◽

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Keyword(s):

Trail Marking

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Infochemicals: An effective and environment friendly management of insect pests for sustainable agriculture

International Journal of Agricultural Invention ◽

10.46492/ijai/2016.1.2.17 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (02) ◽

pp. 218-224

Author(s):

Joni Kumar

Keyword(s):

Insect Pests ◽

Insect Pest ◽

Chemical Substance ◽

Host Finding ◽

Invasive Pest ◽

Mass Trapping ◽

Trail Marking ◽

Species Specific ◽

Transfer Of Information ◽

And Behavior

Chemical signals and cues have been collectively called semiochemicals or infochemicals referring to “a chemical substance, which in a natural context, is implicated in the transfer of information from one individual to other that results certain behavioral and physiological changes in response in one or both. Infochemicals that mediate interactions between members of the same species are collectively referred to as pheromones, and can be classified as sex pheromone, aggregation pheromone, alarm pheromone, trail marking pheromone on the basis of their functions etc. Allelochemicals are also infochemicals which cause an insect to respond interspecifically. They include a more number of chemicals than pheromones, and can be grouped into: allomones, kairomones, apneumones and synomones. The idea of infochemicals using for management of insect pests in agricultural, horticultural, forestry and storage has been a driving ambition through few decades of pheromone research. Several chemicals have been identified from insects that can be used in monitoring of native and invasive pest and also to protect the plants against herbivores. They can also be used as mass trapping, annihilation, and behavior manipulation of insect in host finding. Since these compounds are species specific, highly biodegradable and require in minute quantity, they could be exploited as green alternative to insecticides for ecofriendly management of insect pest for sustaining agriculture growth.

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Trail marking by larvae of the cactus moth,Cactoblastis cactorum

Journal of Insect Science ◽

10.1093/jis/14.1.64 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Terrence D. Fitzgerald ◽

Michael Wolfin ◽

Frank Rossi ◽

James E. Carpenter ◽

Alfonso Pescador-Rubio

Keyword(s):

Cactoblastis Cactorum ◽

Trail Marking ◽

Cactus Moth

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The Bayesian Superorganism: externalised memories facilitate distributed sampling

10.1101/504241 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edmund R. Hunt ◽

Nigel R. Franks ◽

Roland J. Baddeley

Keyword(s):

Probability Distributions ◽

Computational Cost ◽

Cuticular Hydrocarbon ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Central Place ◽

Movement Trajectories ◽

Trail Marking ◽

Marking Behaviour ◽

Distributed Sampling ◽

Collective Information

AbstractA key challenge for any animal (or sampling technique) is to avoid wasting time by searching for resources (information) in places already found to be unprofitable. In biology, this challenge is particularly strong when the organism is a central place forager – returning to a nest between foraging bouts – because it is destined repeatedly to cover much the same ground. This problem will be particularly acute if many individuals forage from the same central place, as in social insects such as the ants. Foraging (sampling) performance may be greatly enhanced by coordinating movement trajectories such that each ant (‘walker’) visits separate parts of the surrounding (unknown) space. We find experimental evidence for an externalised spatial memory in Temnothorax albipennis ants: chemical markers (either pheromones or cues such as cuticular hydrocarbon footprints) that are used by nestmates to mark explored space. We show these markers could be used by the ants to scout the space surrounding their nest more efficiently through indirect coordination. We also develop a simple model of this marking behaviour that can be applied in the context of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (Baddeley et al. 2019). This substantially enhances the performance of standard methods like the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm in sampling from sparse probability distributions (such as those confronted by the ants) with little additional computational cost. Our Bayesian framework for superorganismal behaviour motivates the evolution of exploratory mechanisms such as trail marking in terms of enhanced collective information processing.

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