Crepuscular and nocturnal illumination and its effects on color perception by the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor

S Johnsen, A Kelber, E Warrant… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.biologists.com
nocturnal illumination. Thus, their vision is potentially affected by changes in the spectral
quality of twilight and nocturnal … for the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor, which has color

How does a diurnal hawkmoth find nectar? Differences in sensory control with a nocturnal relative

J Goyret, A Kelber - Behavioral Ecology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… that a nocturnal hawkmoth, Manduca … hawkmoth challenged with the same task but under
illuminances 6–8 orders of magnitude higher. Here, we use flower models presenting color

Colour constancy in diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths

A Balkenius, A Kelber - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004 - journals.biologists.com
… Here, we present evidence that the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor and the diurnal
hawkmoth … However, the role of cognition in colour perception can only be tested in humans. …

Colour vision in nocturnal insects

E Warrant, H Somanathan - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Modelling colour perception in the elephant hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor. (a) Reflectance
… As we have seen earlier, the nocturnal hawk moth D. elpenor can learn to associate the …

Achromatic cues are important for flower visibility to hawkmoths and other insects

CJ van der Kooi, A Kelber - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… Hue and saturation are terms used to characterise human perception of the chromatic … in
an experiment with diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths, and present evidence from literature on …

Innate colour preferences of a hawkmoth depend on visual context

W Kuenzinger, A Kelber, J Weesner… - Biology …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
nocturnal hawkmoth Manduca sexta feeds from large, mostly white, but UV absorbing (hereafter:
white-UV, which is perceived … responses under several nocturnal illuminance conditions …

Alternative use of chromatic and achromatic cues in a hawkmoth

A Kelber - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… We can expect nocturnal animals to rely more on achromatic vision then diurnal animals do.
hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a diurnal sphingid but its ancestors were nocturnal

Artificial light changes visual perception by pollinators in a hawkmoth-plant interaction system

C Vissio, EM Drewniak, AA Cocucci, M Moré… - Urban …, 2024 - Springer
… We examined variation in modeled corolla color perception by nocturnal hawkmoths under
a set of natural and artificial light sources and against different backgrounds. Hawkmoths

Influence of ambient illumination on the use of olfactory and visual signals by a nocturnal hawkmoth during close-range foraging

J Goyret, ML Yuan - Integrative and comparative biology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… The lack of a consistent bias with increased illuminance (which favors color perception)
could reflect a conflict between innate preferences for blue chromatic signals and achromatic …

Parallel evolution of opsin visual pigments in hawkmoths by tuning of spectral sensitivities during transition from a nocturnal to a diurnal ecology

T Akiyama, H Uchiyama, S Yajima… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
… Their opsins presumably carry key information on what happened to the evolution of visual
perception at the molecular level during diurnal–nocturnal transition events, which occurred …