List of works - Gábor Horváth

A new tabanid trap applying a modified concept of the old flypaper: Linearly polarising sticky black surfaces as an effective tool to catch polarotactic horseflies ⬇️

scientific article published on March 13, 2013

An unexpected advantage of whiteness in horses: the most horsefly-proof horse has a depolarizing white coat

scientific article published on 3 February 2010

Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today ⬇️

scientific article published on December 5, 2012

Degrees of polarization of reflected light eliciting polarotaxis in dragonflies (Odonata), mayflies (Ephemeroptera) and tabanid flies (Tabanidae).

scientific article published on 10 September 2009

Erroneous quadruped walking depictions in natural history museums

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Glass buildings on river banks as "polarized light traps" for mass-swarming polarotactic caddis flies

scientific article published on 6 February 2008

How can Asphalt Roads Extend the Range of In Situ Polarized Light Pollution? A Complex Ecological Trap of Ephemera danica and a Possible Remedy

scientific article published on 05 June 2017

How can horseflies be captured by solar panels? A new concept of tabanid traps using light polarization and electricity produced by photovoltaics ⬇️

scientific article published on April 19, 2012

Imaging polarimetry of glass buildings: why do vertical glass surfaces attract polarotactic insects?

scientific article published in August 2008

Lamp-lit bridges as dual light-traps for the night-swarming mayfly, Ephoron virgo: interaction of polarized and unpolarized light pollution

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Mayflies are least attracted to vertical polarization: A polarotactic reaction helping to avoid unsuitable habitats

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Method to reduce motion artifacts of sequential imaging polarimetry: long enough exposures minimize polarization blurs of wavy water surfaces

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

New kind of polarotaxis governed by degree of polarization: attraction of tabanid flies to differently polarizing host animals and water surfaces ⬇️

scientific article published on May 12, 2012

No evidence for behavioral responses to circularly polarized light in four scarab beetle species with circularly polarizing exocuticle.

scientific article

Optics of sunlit water drops on leaves: conditions under which sunburn is possible

scientific article published on 08 January 2010

Orientation with a Viking sun-compass, a shadow-stick, and two calcite sunstones under various weather conditions

scientific article published in September 2013

Phototaxis and polarotaxis hand in hand: night dispersal flight of aquatic insects distracted synergistically by light intensity and reflection polarization.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Polarization sensitivity in Collembola: an experimental study of polarotaxis in the water-surface-inhabiting springtail Podura aquatica.

scientific article

Polarized light pollution of matte solar panels: anti-reflective photovoltaics reduce polarized light pollution but benefit only some aquatic insects

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Polarized light pollution: a new kind of ecological photopollution

article by Gábor Horváth et al published August 2009 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least attractive: an advantage of zebra stripes

scientific article

Polarotaxis in non-biting midges: Female chironomids are attracted to horizontally polarized light ⬇️

scientific article published on July 2, 2011

Positive polarotaxis in a mayfly that never leaves the water surface: polarotactic water detection in Palingenia longicauda (Ephemeroptera).

scientific article published on 29 November 2006

Reducing the maladaptive attractiveness of solar panels to polarotactic insects

scientific article

Seasonality and daily activity of male and female tabanid flies monitored in a Hungarian hill-country pasture by new polarization traps and traditional canopy traps

scientific article published on 6 September 2014

Spatiotemporal change of sky polarization during the total solar eclipse on 29 March 2006 in Turkey: polarization patterns of the eclipsed sky observed by full-sky imaging polarimetry.

scientific article published in December 2008

Spottier Targets Are Less Attractive to Tabanid Flies: On the Tabanid-Repellency of Spotty Fur Patterns ⬇️

scientific article published on August 2, 2012

Stripes disrupt odour attractiveness to biting horseflies: Battle between ammonia, CO2, and colour pattern for dominance in the sensory systems of host-seeking tabanids ⬇️

scientific article published on June 28, 2013

Unexpected attraction of polarotactic water-leaving insects to matt black car surfaces: mattness of paintwork cannot eliminate the polarized light pollution of black cars

scientific article

Ventral polarization vision in tabanids: horseflies and deerflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) are attracted to horizontally polarized light

scientific article published on 7 August 2008

Why do highly polarizing black burnt-up stubble-fields not attract aquatic insects? An exception proving the rule.

scientific article published on 11 October 2006

Why do red and dark-coloured cars lure aquatic insects? The attraction of water insects to car paintwork explained by reflection-polarization signals.

scientific article published in July 2006

List of works by Gábor Horváth

A new tabanid trap applying a modified concept of the old flypaper: Linearly polarising sticky black surfaces as an effective tool to catch polarotactic horseflies ⬇️

An unexpected advantage of whiteness in horses: the most horsefly-proof horse has a depolarizing white coat

Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today ⬇️

Degrees of polarization of reflected light eliciting polarotaxis in dragonflies (Odonata), mayflies (Ephemeroptera) and tabanid flies (Tabanidae).

Erroneous quadruped walking depictions in natural history museums

Glass buildings on river banks as "polarized light traps" for mass-swarming polarotactic caddis flies

How can Asphalt Roads Extend the Range of In Situ Polarized Light Pollution? A Complex Ecological Trap of Ephemera danica and a Possible Remedy

How can horseflies be captured by solar panels? A new concept of tabanid traps using light polarization and electricity produced by photovoltaics ⬇️

Imaging polarimetry of glass buildings: why do vertical glass surfaces attract polarotactic insects?

Lamp-lit bridges as dual light-traps for the night-swarming mayfly, Ephoron virgo: interaction of polarized and unpolarized light pollution

Mayflies are least attracted to vertical polarization: A polarotactic reaction helping to avoid unsuitable habitats

Method to reduce motion artifacts of sequential imaging polarimetry: long enough exposures minimize polarization blurs of wavy water surfaces

New kind of polarotaxis governed by degree of polarization: attraction of tabanid flies to differently polarizing host animals and water surfaces ⬇️

No evidence for behavioral responses to circularly polarized light in four scarab beetle species with circularly polarizing exocuticle.

Optics of sunlit water drops on leaves: conditions under which sunburn is possible

Orientation with a Viking sun-compass, a shadow-stick, and two calcite sunstones under various weather conditions

Phototaxis and polarotaxis hand in hand: night dispersal flight of aquatic insects distracted synergistically by light intensity and reflection polarization.

Polarization sensitivity in Collembola: an experimental study of polarotaxis in the water-surface-inhabiting springtail Podura aquatica.

Polarized light pollution of matte solar panels: anti-reflective photovoltaics reduce polarized light pollution but benefit only some aquatic insects

Polarized light pollution: a new kind of ecological photopollution

Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least attractive: an advantage of zebra stripes

Polarotaxis in non-biting midges: Female chironomids are attracted to horizontally polarized light ⬇️

Positive polarotaxis in a mayfly that never leaves the water surface: polarotactic water detection in Palingenia longicauda (Ephemeroptera).

Reducing the maladaptive attractiveness of solar panels to polarotactic insects

Seasonality and daily activity of male and female tabanid flies monitored in a Hungarian hill-country pasture by new polarization traps and traditional canopy traps

Spatiotemporal change of sky polarization during the total solar eclipse on 29 March 2006 in Turkey: polarization patterns of the eclipsed sky observed by full-sky imaging polarimetry.

Spottier Targets Are Less Attractive to Tabanid Flies: On the Tabanid-Repellency of Spotty Fur Patterns ⬇️

Stripes disrupt odour attractiveness to biting horseflies: Battle between ammonia, CO2, and colour pattern for dominance in the sensory systems of host-seeking tabanids ⬇️

Unexpected attraction of polarotactic water-leaving insects to matt black car surfaces: mattness of paintwork cannot eliminate the polarized light pollution of black cars

Ventral polarization vision in tabanids: horseflies and deerflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) are attracted to horizontally polarized light

Why do highly polarizing black burnt-up stubble-fields not attract aquatic insects? An exception proving the rule.

Why do red and dark-coloured cars lure aquatic insects? The attraction of water insects to car paintwork explained by reflection-polarization signals.