Table 1 Culicoides biting midges collected during a comparative study of commercially available light emitting diode baited suction traps. Studies were conducted over a total of 49Â days at a farm holding in the United Kingdom
Species | Total Culicoides collected (Mean ± SEM) |  | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CDC (n = 48) | Ultraviolet (n = 47) | Blue (n = 46) | Green (n = 49) | Yellow (n = 48) | Red (n = 45) | White (n = 46) | Total (n = 329) | |
C. obsoletus/C. scoticus/C. dewulfi | 20,569 (429 ± 110) | 3,077 (65.5 ± 18.6) | 3,515 (76.4 ± 24.1) | 3,965 (80.9 ± 17.3) | 2,810 (58.5 ± 25.0) | 122 (2.7 ± 0.6) | 3,379 (73.5 ± 23.0) | 37,437 |
C. pulicaris | 389 (8.1 ± 2.8) | 49 (1.0 ± 0.3) | 119 (2.6 ± 0.9) | 157 (3.2 ± 1.0) | 69 (1.4 ± 0.5) | 1 (0.02 ± 0.0) | 100 (2.2 ± 0.7) | 884 |
C. punctatus | 210 (4.4 ± 1.7) | 20 (0.4 ± 0.2) | 55 (1.2 ± 0.9) | 77 (1.6 ± 0.5) | 31 (0.6 ± 0.3) | 0 | 13 (0.3 ± 0.1) | 406 |
C. impunctatus | 93 (1.9 ± 0.8) | 54 (1.1 ± 0.6) | 91 (2.0 ± 1.2) | 72 (1.5 ± 0.4) | 16 (0.3 ± 0.1) | 2 (0.04 ± 0.0) | 16 (0.3 ± 0.1) | 344 |
C. brunnicans | 264 (12.6 ± 4.9) | 103 (4.9 ± 1.9) | 542 (25.8 ± 22.4) | 744 (35.3 ± 27.3) | 213 (10.1 ± 5.3) | 19 (1.0 ± 0.4) | 186 (10.3 ± 5.5) | 2,071 |
Other Species | 527 | 154 | 319 | 357 | 164 | 3 | 100 | 1,624 |
Total | 22,052 | 3,457 | 4,641 | 5,372 | 3,303 | 147 | 3,794 | 42,766 |