Time perception-based decision making in a parasitoid wasp

Jean-Philippe Parent, Keiji Takasu, Jacques Brodeur and Guy Boivin

Behavioral Ecology, 2017, vol. 28, issue 3, 640-644

Abstract: Lay Summary Parasitoid wasps need to measure time to optimize their behavior. Using training with odors, we demonstrated that they are able to measure the time between host encounters. They will fly to the odor associated to the interval of time they just experienced. The way by which they measure time appears to be at least in part through activity during the waiting period. Indeed, restraining movement appears to prevent them from measuring time.

Keywords: Microplitis croceipes; measure of time; associative learning; parasitoid. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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