Phallus impudicus L. (Stinkmorchel) in siedlungnahen Gehölzen als mögliche Quelle der Zuwanderung von Dipteren in den Siedlungsbereich

Abstract

Phallus impudicus (stink-horn) as a source of moving of Diptera into settlements. In the kitchen-garden and the small wood adjacent of a Farm and the woods neighbouring researches have been made about the species of Diptera visiting the stink-horn (Phallus impudicus L.) of which the spores were spread by insects, specially by Diptera too. After some years suddenly in the small wood of the farm stink-horns appeared. This and other observations indicate probably a migration of different species of Diptera from the woods (and other Formations of Plants) of the neighbourhood to the Farm. The appearence ofPhallus near farms and settlements can be one of many ways to study the behaviour of migration and the origin of individuals of species of Diptera of practical importance not developped in the sphere of settlements, which are to be found near these and farms specially during calamities. These are problems of importance specially with refrence to Diptera vectors of diseases.