Mosquito Larvae Capable Of Learning
This website was created by group 1 from the University of Arizona's Honors Biology 181 class. It was made in order to explain a paper on mosquitoes and predator responses.
The experiment was done by Maud C.O. Ferrari, Francois Messier, and Douglas P. Chivers in order to determine if prey can show a behavioral response to learned predators. Many types of prey do not show an innate recognition of their predators, most likely because their predators can widely vary depending on where the prey is located. In order for the prey to understand what their predators are, they have to learn it. This is the first time that threat-sensitive learning in an aquatic invertebrate has been demonstrated.
Special Recognition
We'd like to thank our mentor, Dr. Bob Smith, for all of his help.We would also like to thank Dr. Elizabeth Willott, the professor for Bio 181 Honors, and Chris Goforth, the teaching assistant, for all of their efforts.