Culicoides midge trap enhancement with animal odour baits in Scotland

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 336-342

  Mands, V ^a   Kline, D L ^b   Blackwell, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal odours; Attractants; Baited traps; Biting midges; C. nubeculosus; C. pulicaris; C. vexans; Carbon dioxide; Culicoides impunctatus; Electroantennogram; Midge control; Mosquito Magnet ; Octenol; Odour baits; Removal trapping; Scotland

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

MOSQUITO; PEST CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DEER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HORSE; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DEER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HORSES; INSECT CONTROL; PHEROMONES; SCOTLAND; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CULICOIDES ALBICANS; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; DIPTERA; EQUUS CABALLUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 11144303518     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0269-283X.2004.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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