Abstract. The responses of Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) to carbon dioxide, acetone and 1‐octen‐3‐ol were assessed using flight activity as a measure of activation. Carbon dioxide and acetone caused significant increases in activity, with thresholds at ‐0.006% and ‐0.01 μg 1‐l, respectively. For l‐octen‐3‐ol, flight activity decreased at 2 μg 1‐1 for males, and at 0.2 μg 1‐1 for females. Variation in activity was also manifest as differences in the time elapsed between landing and subsequent take‐off: CO2 (7.1 s) and acetone (12.2s) had lower times than the corresponding no‐odour controls (16.6 and 23.2s), whereas 1‐octen‐3‐ol (25 s) had a higher time than the control (21.5 s). The proportion of the total number of flights landing on a black target was higher in CO2(0.16) and acetone (0.11) than in clear air (c. 0.07), but was lower for l‐octen‐3‐ol.
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