Behavioural responses of dairy cattle to the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, in an open field environment

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 122-137

  Mullens, B A ^a   Lii, K S ^a   Mao, Y ^a   Meyer, J A ^a   Peterson, N G ^b   Szijj, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cattle; Milk production; Sampling; Stable fly; Stomoxys calcitrans; U.S.A.

Indexed keywords

PERMETHRIN;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATTLE; FLY; PEST SPECIES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAIRYING; DRUG EFFECT; ECTOPARASITOSIS; ENVIRONMENT; HABITUATION; INFESTATION; INSECT BITE; INSECT CONTROL; MILK; MUSCIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SECRETION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; ENVIRONMENT; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT CONTROL; LINEAR MODELS; MILK; MUSCIDAE; PERMETHRIN; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

BOS TAURUS; DIPTERA; MUSCIDAE; STOMOXYS; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS;

EID: 33645215667     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2006.00608.x     Document Type: Article

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