Use of odour-baited sticky boards to trap tabanid flies and investigate repellents

Tabanid flies were captured in a sheep pasture in Hungary using black plastic boards (30 × 30 cm), coated with an adhesive sheet, which were either unbaited or baited with ethane‐ethiol or Swormlure‐4. Five species of tabanid were caught, of which Tabanus tergestinus was caught in the greatest numbe...

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Published in:Medical and veterinary entomology 1998-07, Vol.12 (3), p.241-245
Main Authors: HALL, MARTIN J. R., FARKAS, RÓBERT, CHAINEY, JOHN E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Diptera
Female
Insect Control
Insect Repellents
Male
Odorants
Tabanidae
Tabanus tergestinus
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Summary:Tabanid flies were captured in a sheep pasture in Hungary using black plastic boards (30 × 30 cm), coated with an adhesive sheet, which were either unbaited or baited with ethane‐ethiol or Swormlure‐4. Five species of tabanid were caught, of which Tabanus tergestinus was caught in the greatest number (87% of 192). The sex ratio of T. tergestinus on unbaited boards was not statistically significantly different to equality. However, on baited boards, males were significantly more numerous, probably due to a repellent effect of the odours on female tabanids. Because of the importance of repellents in tabanid control, this result encourages the exploration of a wider range of compounds as tabanid repellents than are used at present. Sticky boards offer a simple technique for trapping both sexes of tabanids, especially males, which are poorly represented in many tabanid traps.
ISSN:0269-283X
1365-2915
DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2915.1998.00107.x