ee7ba05a-449b-466e-840c-8de1d3f1d4d1 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:25:16 UK GEMINI 2.3 Invertebrate behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies, in laboratory trials 2024-07-09 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ee7ba05a-449b-466e-840c-8de1d3f1d4d1 10.5285/ee7ba05a-449b-466e-840c-8de1d3f1d4d1 doi: Taylor, C., Dawson, J.J., D’Cruz, T., Jackson, H.J., Lowe, R., Rees, H., Richardson, J., Sains, J., Short, F., Gilbert, F., Reader, T. (2024). Invertebrate behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies, in laboratory trials. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/ee7ba05a-449b-466e-840c-8de1d3f1d4d1 Three files describe behavioural trials involving jumping spiders, crab spiders and praying mantises respectively. They include details about the individual predators, the stimuli used and the behavioural responses from the predators. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ee7ba05a-449b-466e-840c-8de1d3f1d4d1 Taylor, C. University of Nottingham c.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-7104 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Dawson, J.J. University of Nottingham mbyjd10@nottingham.ac.uk author D’Cruz, T. University of Nottingham tahiredcruz0@gmail.com author Jackson, H.J. University of Nottingham mbzhjj@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-6157 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Lowe, R. University of Nottingham beclowe21@gmail.com author Rees, H. University of Nottingham hallie.mhr@gmail.com author Richardson, J. University of Nottingham mbyjr16@nottingham.ac.uk author Sains, J. University of Nottingham mbyjs21@nottingham.ac.uk author Short, F. University of Nottingham mbyfs8@nottingham.ac.uk author Gilbert, F. University of Nottingham plzfg@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2727-4103 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Reader, T. University of Nottingham plztr@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7586-8814 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Nottingham EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Taylor, C. University of Nottingham c.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk pointOfContact Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Mantidae Salticidae Thomisidae Synema globosum Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation laboratory insect hymenopteran spider predator GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Animal behaviour Batesian mimicry hoverfly Syrphidae wasp praying mantis jumping spider phiddipus audax Shiny crab-spider otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Taylor, C., Dawson, J.J., D’Cruz, T., Jackson, H.J., Lowe, R., Rees, H., Richardson, J., Sains, J., Short, F., Gilbert, F., Reader, T. (2024). Invertebrate behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies, in laboratory trials. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ee7ba05a-449b-466e-840c-8de1d3f1d4d1 English utf8 environment Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/ee7ba05a-449b-466e-840c-8de1d3f1d4d1 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/ee7ba05a-449b-466e-840c-8de1d3f1d4d1.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 We investigated how different species of invertebrate, all potential predators of flower-visiting insects, responded to 3D printed wasp-like and fly-like stimuli. Our predators were jumping spiders, crab spiders and praying mantises. Each received training to associate wasp stimuli with a negative experience, while fly stimuli were not associated with any positive or negative experience. We then tested predator responses to a range of novel mimetic stimuli with varying levels of similarity to the wasp stimulus. The aim was to determine how accurately a stimulus needed to mimic the negatively-conditioned wasp stimulus before it would be mistaken for the wasp by the predators . Behavioural observations were conducted in real time during the experimental trials, with video recordings taken in some cases for later reference. A stopwatch was used for timings. Data have been cleaned (for example, removal of invalid or unused data points) and formatted using custom scripts in R v4.3.2.