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Bioreplicated visual features of nanofabricated buprestid beetle decoys evoke stereotypical male mating flights

2014; National Academy of Sciences; Volume: 111; Issue: 39 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1073/pnas.1412810111

1091-6490

Michael J. Domingue, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Drew P. Pulsifer, Loyal P. Hall, John V. Badding, Jesse L. Bischof, Raúl J. Martín‐Palma, Zoltán Imrei, Gergely Janik, Victor C. Mastro, Missy Hazen, Thomas C. Baker,

Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry

Significance Advances in material processes for bioreplication have led to the use of bioinspired designs in a wide variety of practical applications, often at a scale involving nanofabrication. Such techniques also provide the opportunity to examine the functional significance of nanostructured organismal properties within biological systems. This paper describes the replication of fine-scale elements of the exoskeleton of buprestid beetles that produce a visually interpreted mating signal. A nanofabricated replica of the beetle was exploited to cause wild male beetles to land on synthetic decoy beetles. The development of such bioreplicated decoys opens new avenues for the study of the nature of insect visual responses, as well as applications for detection technologies that target pest organisms.