Factors affecting numbers of Culicoides in truck traps in coastal Queensland

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 367-377

  Kettle, D S ^a   Edwards, Penelope B ^a,c   Barnes, A ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Medical School   (Australia)

^c Tropical Ecosystem Research Centre   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS   (Australia)

Author keywords

24 h cycle; Australia; C. marmoratus; C. victoriae; Culicoides brevitarsis; Lunar cycle; Meteorological variables; Queensland; Seasonality; Sex ratio; Tidal cycle

Indexed keywords

CATCH COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLY; PEST SPECIES; TRAPPING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BITE; CAR; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES AUSTROPALPALIS; CULICOIDES BREVITARSIS; CULICOIDES BUNDYENSIS; CULICOIDES HENRYI; CULICOIDES LONGIOR; CULICOIDES MARKSI; CULICOIDES MARMORATUS; CULICOIDES VICTORIAE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; QUEENSLAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SPRING; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WIND; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ANIMALIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES AUSTROPALPALIS; CULICOIDES BREVITARSIS; CULICOIDES BUNDYENSIS; CULICOIDES HENRYI; CULICOIDES LONGIOR; CULICOIDES MARKSI; CULICOIDES MARMORATUS; CULICOIDES VICTORIAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0032191716     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1998.00119.x     Document Type: Article

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