caa a22 4500 397570546 CHVBK 20180308164840.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/ee/25.6.1383 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/ee/25.6.1383 Water Deprivation and Light Affect Responses of Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae) to Oviposition Site Cues [Elektronische Daten] [Jun Isoei, Jocelyn G. Millar] Responses of blood-fed gravid Culex tarsalis Coquillett mosquitoes to visual and chemical cues associated with oviposition sites were affected by water deprivation but not by sugar deprivation. Gravid mosquitoes deprived of water for 24 h before bioassay were more responsive to oviposition cues and laid the majority of their egg rafts around dusk, whereas mosquitoes not deprived of water laid similar numbers of eggs around dusk and dawn. Ambient light levels also affected responses to oviposition cues, with mosquitoes using visual cues more under dim light than in full darkness. These results indicate that oviposition behavior is flexible, depending on the types of cues that are available. Oviposition behavior is mediated by physical, chemical, and biological cues, and our results suggest that in the absence of a particular cue, the entire suite of behaviors which culminate in oviposition may still be triggered by the remaining cues present. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Physiological and Chemical Ecology nationallicence Culex tarsalis nationallicence oviposition behavior nationallicence oviposition cues nationallicence light levels nationallicence nutrition nationallicence starvation nationallicence Isoei Jun Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 aut Millar Jocelyn G. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 aut Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/6(1996-12-01), 1383-1390 0046-225X 25:6<1383 1996 25 ee https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.6.1383 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.6.1383 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Isoei Jun Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Millar Jocelyn G. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/6(1996-12-01), 1383-1390 0046-225X 25:6<1383 1996 25 ee Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford