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A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT LIGHTS IN TRAPS FOR CULICOIDES (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Peter Belton  and
Amalia Pucat
Peter Belton
Affiliation:
Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Belleville, Ontario
Amalia Pucat
Affiliation:
Macdonald College of McGill University, Macdonald College P.O., Quebec
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Abstract

The effectiveness of incandescent and cool white and black light fluorescent lamps was compared in traps used to sample biting midges, mainly Culicoides sanguisuga (Coq.), around Lac Serpent, Quebec, between 17 June and 31 July 1966. The ratio of the modified geometric mean nightly catches of the lamps was about 1:1:40, respectively. A New Jersey trap with a fluorescent black light is highly effective, and to some extent selective, for Culicoides spp.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 99 , Issue 3 , March 1967 , pp. 267 - 272
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1967

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