Parameters of motion vision in low light in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta

The Journal of Experimental Biology
Kalyanasundaram Parthasarathy, M A Willis

Abstract

The hawkmoth Manduca sexta is nocturnally active, beginning its flight activity at sunset, and executing rapid controlled maneuvers to search for food and mates in dim light conditions. The visual system of this moth has been shown to trade off spatial and temporal resolution for increased sensitivity in these conditions. The study presented here uses tethered flying moths to characterize the flight performance envelope of the wide-field-motion-triggered steering response of M. sexta in low light conditions by measuring attempted turning in response to wide-field visual motion. Moths were challenged with a horizontally oscillating sinusoidal grating at a range of luminance, from daylight to starlight conditions. The impact of luminance on response to a range of temporal frequencies and spatial wavelengths was assessed across a range of pattern contrasts. The optomotor response decreased as a function of decreasing luminance, and the lower limit of the moth's contrast sensitivity was found to be between 1 and 5%. The preferred spatial frequency for M. sexta increased from 0.06 to 0.3 cycles deg-1 as the luminance decreased, but the preferred temporal frequency remained stable at 4.5 Hz across all conditions. The relationship bet...Continue Reading

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