Control techniques for Culicoides biting midges and their application in the U.K. and northwestern Palaearctic

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 175-187

  Carpenter, S ^a,c   Mellor, P S ^a   Torr, S J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c IAH Pirbright   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African horse sickness; Bluetongue virus; Cattle; Ceratopogonidae; Culicoides; Europe; Horses; Sheep; Sweet itch; U.K.

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

BREEDING SITE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; EMERGENCE; FLY; HORSE; INSECTICIDE; KAIROMONE; NEW RECORD; PALEARCTIC REGION; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; SHEEP; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DRUG EFFECT; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; GREAT BRITAIN; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; ORBIVIRUS; ORTHOREOVIRUS; OVIS ARIES; REOVIRIDAE;

EID: 49749084750     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00743.x     Document Type: Review

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