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Zum Verhalten an Fäkalien und zur Ernährung der Art Muscina stabulans (Fall.) 1823 (Muscidae, Diptera) 1
Author(s) -
Teschner Dietrich
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
zeitschrift für angewandte entomologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.795
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1439-0418
pISSN - 0044-2240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0418.1960.tb01374.x
Subject(s) - muscidae , biology , dung beetle , zoology , significant difference , ecology , scarabaeidae , mathematics , statistics
Summary Outdoor tests with dung baits showed that females of Muscina stabulans quickly land on the dung and feed and lay eggs on it. In Nature, dung is only of importance to the males as a place to meet the females. The males do not usually land there and the few that do merely, at the most, satisfy their fluid requirements. Because dung is important to the females both as a food and a breeding medium, they fly to it, in contrast to the males, even when it is in cool shade or containers (= traps). In many dipterous ‘dung species’, the number of females caught in traps greatly exceeds the males and it is therefore assumed that the difference in the feeding habits of the sexes is widespread amongst these flies. This difference has previously only been recorded and studied in blood sucking species (Culicidae and Tabanidae).