Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) host preferences and biting rates in the Netherlands: Comparing cattle, sheep and the black-light suction trap

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 330-337

  Elbers, A R W ^a   Meiswinkel, R ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Loc Santa Maria del Monte   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abundance; Direct aspiration; Pootering; Transmission modelling

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITING RATE; BITING SITE; BLACK LIGHT SUCTION TRAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COW; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES CHIOPTERUS; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; EWE; FEMALE; GENERAL DEVICE; HOST PREFERENCE; INSECT BITE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUNSET; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST RANGE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHEEP; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES CHIOPTERUS; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST SPECIFICITY; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; NETHERLANDS; SHEEP; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84906937935     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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