Published April 26, 2025 | Version v4

Supplementary materials for: How effective are insect aposematism and Batesian mimicry in deterring a wild avian predator?

  • 1. University of Białystok
  • 2. Università degli Studi di Firenze
  • 3. ClearWing Foundation for Biodiversity
  • 4. ROR icon University of Turin

Description

Acoustic_parameters_10cm.txt
Acoustic parameters of the sounds produced by insects in flight, species recorded at 10 cm from the microphone.

Acoustic_parameters_5cm.txt
Acoustic parameters of the sounds produced by insects in flight, species recorded at 5 cm from the microphone.

Robin_behaviours.txt
Erithacus rubecula reactions measured in Boris software from videos of behavioural experiments.

Rscript_robin_behaviours.R
R script used for the analysis of robins’ behaviours (using Robin_behaviours.txt).

Rscript_acoustical_analyses.R
R script used for the analysis of acoustical parameters of insect buzzing sounds (using Acoustic_parameters_10cm.txt and Acoustic_parameters_5cm.txt).

Robin_experiment_video.mp4
Behavioural experiment with a wild European robin (Erithacus rubecula) in its habitat. A freshly defrosted insect specimen and the corresponding buzzing sound of each recorded hymenopteran model and lepidopteran mimic (plus a housefly as a control) were presented in random order to the robin at a feeder with Tenebrio molitor larvae.

Robin_experiment_video_Metadata.docx
Metadata for the supplementary video Robin_experiment_video.mp4.

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Funding

National Science Centre
Deceiving through acoustics: do moths sound like bees or wasps they morphologically resemble to trick predators? 2019/32/C/NZ8/00523
Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej
Insects in disguise - do clearwing moths mimic semiochemicals of noxious bees and wasps to avoid attack? BPN/BEK/2021/1/00318