Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack journals.plos.org

The treatments were black-and-white painted stripes, black painted stripes, and no stripes (all-black body surface).
Here we show that the numbers of biting flies on Japanese Black cows painted with black-and-white stripes were significantly lower than those on non-painted cows and cows painted only with black stripes.
(2019) Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack.
We hypothesized that cows painted with black-and-white stripes on their body could avoid biting fly attacks and decrease their fly-repelling behaviors.
The treatments consisted of black-and-white painted stripes (B&W), black painted stripes (B), and no stripes (CONT) as a control (Fig 1).