喜花昆虫访花利用的信息研究进展

Progress in Floral Foraging Cues Used by Anthophilous Insects

昆虫与花形成了长期的协同进化关系。昆虫对花的访问和吮吸过程,需要整合视觉信息、嗅觉信息、触觉信息、图案信息等。本文首先从喜花昆虫和花的关系上讨论了自然界一些矛盾的选择压,然后综述了不同种类的昆虫利用的访花信息,以及这些信息的整合方式研究方面的最新进展,最后讨论了学习效应对访花偏好性转移的影响。

Long-term co-evolutionary relationships have been formed between herbivores and the flowers of nectar plants. The visiting and nectar foraging behavior of insects to flowers involves the integration of various floral cues including visual cues, olfactory cues, tactile cues, and pattern cues, etc. In this paper, the author discusses some antagonistic selection pressures of insects to plants, then reviewed the floral cues used by various insects during foraging on flowers as well as recent on-going works on the integration of these cues. Finally, I discussed the effect of natural learning on the transferring of floral visiting preference.