Volkova P.E., Ovchinnikova T.M., Soukhovolsky V.G.

 
V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS
50 Akademgorodok, 660036, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

 Abstract

 This work is dedicated to studying major system attributes of forest lepidopterous insects’ pheromone communication channel (i.e. female behavior strategies, information losses and noise in the channel, necessary effectiveness of pheromone communication channel, etc.). These system attributes result not from insect species’ peculiarities or pheromone molecule characteristics, but from general characteristics of communication channels, considered from the point of view of information theory and general patterns of decision making during generation and perceiving information.

Keywords: Insects, pheromons, odor-guided search, behavior, strategy

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