Adaptive migratory orientation of an invasive pest on a new continent

This data is about the flight orientation of fall armyworm in different seasons in Yunna, China. It suggests the fall armyworm showing northwest flight orientaion in Spring(both in 2020 and 2021), disoriented in Summer, southwest flight orientation in Autumn. It also indicates flight orientation of fall armyworm has the same pattern as the field results in different simulated season in the lab via rearing population under photoperiod of three seasons, which implys thephotoperiod is the key factor steering flight orientation of Fall armyworm. The data recording was collected from the insect flight simulator, which is consist of custom software named Flash Flight Simulator Data Acquisition System, Mapflow(experiments in the lab), and custom single chips (ask the lead contact if you are interested). If you would like to analyse the data again, please read the README.csv first to know what is the meaning of data in each column.

本数据集聚焦中国云南不同季节下草地贪夜蛾（fall armyworm）的飞行定向行为。研究结果显示，草地贪夜蛾在春季（2020年与2021年）均表现出西北向飞行定向，夏季则出现飞行定向紊乱，秋季则表现为西南向飞行定向。此外，本数据还表明：在实验室通过设置三个季节的光周期（photoperiod）饲养种群并模拟不同季节环境时，草地贪夜蛾的飞行定向模式与野外观测结果一致，这暗示光周期是调控草地贪夜蛾飞行定向行为的关键因子。本数据集的记录数据采集自昆虫飞行模拟器系统，该系统由定制开发的Flash Flight Simulator Data Acquisition System软件、Mapflow（实验室实验用）以及定制单片机组成，若您对此感兴趣可联系通讯作者获取相关细节。若您需要对本数据集进行二次分析，请先阅读README.csv文件以了解各列数据的具体含义。