Aromatic plants in bird nests as a protection against blood-sucking flying insects?
@article{Lafuma2001AromaticPI, title={Aromatic plants in bird nests as a protection against blood-sucking flying insects?}, author={Lucile Lafuma and Marcel M. Lambrechts and Michel Raymond}, journal={Behavioural Processes}, year={2001}, volume={56}, pages={113-120} }
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A review of the nest protection hypothesis: does inclusion of fresh green plant material in birds’ nests reduce parasite infestation?
- BiologyParasitology
- 2015
This review focuses on studies involving the most popular of these hypotheses, the NPH: that plants decrease nest parasites or pathogens, thereby conveying positive effects to the chicks, allowing the behaviour to evolve.
Interacting effects of aromatic plants and female age on nest-dwelling ectoparasites and blood-sucking flies in avian nests
- Environmental Science, BiologyBehavioural Processes
- 2012
Aromatic plants in blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus nests: no negative effect on blood‐sucking Protocalliphora blow fly larvae
- Biology
- 2008
It is concluded that aromatic plants in blue tit nests are not used as a defence against ectoparasitic Protocalliphora blow flies in the study population.
Green Plant Material in Avian Nests
- Biology, Environmental Science
- 2013
An overview of hypotheses explaining the phenomenon of green material in avian nests with a thorough description of three most frequently tested hypotheses is presented and the directions for future studies are suggested.
Wood ants use resin to protect themselves against pathogens
- BiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 2007
This work provides the first experimental evidence that animals using plant compounds with antibacterial and antifungal properties survive better when exposed to detrimental micro-organisms.
Blue tits use selected plants and olfaction to maintain an aromatic environment for nestlings
- Biology, Environmental Science
- 2002
It is shown that blue tits on the island of Corsica (Parus caeruleus ogliastrae) adorn their nests with fragments of aromatic plants, supporting predictions of the nest protection hypothesis.
Does fresh vegetation protect avian nests from ectoparasites? An experiment with tree swallows
- Biology, Environmental Science
- 2004
This hypothesis that volatile chemicals contained in green plants reduce populations of nest-dwelling ectoparasites in nests is tested with tree swallows and finds that second-year females with yarrow added to their nests hatched significantly more eggs and were signif - icantly less likely to suffer hatching failure and brood reduction.
Aromatic plants in nests of blue tits: positive effects on nestlings
- Biology, Environmental ScienceAnimal Behaviour
- 2009
Local Individual Preferences for Nest Materials in a Passerine Bird
- Environmental Science, BiologyPloS one
- 2009
This study demonstrates that plant species composition of nests results from individual preferences that are homogeneous within study plots, and cannot exclude the possibility of social transmission of individual preferences for aromatic plants.
European starlings: nestling condition, parasites and green nest material during the breeding season
- Biology, Environmental ScienceJournal of Ornithology
- 2005
It seems that volatile herbs can reduce bacterial but not mite infestation of the starling nests, and the positive influence of herbs on nestling growth indicates that herbs either directly or via parasite control improve the condition of the nestlings and help them cope with the harmful effects of mites.
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