Sticky card color and luminance on insect capture

Coloured sticky traps are commonly used to monitor insect pests. Colour affects trap performance; with preferred colours often differing between species, making selection of trap colour for effective management of multiple pests challenging. Greenhouse whitefly (GWF) Trialeurodes vaporariorum and Western flower thrips (WFT) Frankliniella occidentalis, are major horticultural pests that often co-occur. Yellow colours are attractive to GWF, while blue is often used to target WFT, although WFT are also attracted to yellow colours in certain contexts. The visual properties that make yellow colours attractive to either species are not well understood. Previous experiments in WFT find that visual modelling of an opponent mechanism between short wavelength sensitive (SWS) and long wavelength sensitive (LWS) photoreceptors optimises performance of blue sticky traps. In the current study, we assess whether an opponent response that highly stimulates LWS relative to SWS photoreceptors predicts th..., , , # Insect catch raw data and code

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## Description of the data and file structure

* Raw data files (.csv)
* brightvlum_yellow = greenhouse whitefly (GWF) and western flower thrips (WFT) caught on traps for experiment 1 in the associated manuscript
* Colour:  categorical classification of yellow colors tested (Y11, Y3, Y5)
* Tunnel: Polytunnel replicates for experimental testing
* Row: Crop row replicates within each polytunnel
* pLum: predicted luminance of each color for the insect visual system
* pBG: predicted BG ratio of each color for the insect visual system
* mBG: measured BG ratio from photographs of cards taken in polytunnels
* mLum: measured luminance from photographs of cards taken in polytunnels
* Species: western flower thrips (WFT) or greenhouse whitefly (GWF)
* Count: number of insects caught
* Solids = GWF and WFT caught on traps for experiment 2 in...,