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Table 6 Field Trial One: Culicoides collected within Ultraviolet (UV) Center for Disease Control (CDC) light-suction traps which are within frames which are either (i) covered with insecticide-treated mesh, (ii) covered with untreated mesh, or (iii) left uncovered, i.e. no mesh, total number collected with the number of female; male shown in parenthesis

From: Can insecticide-treated netting provide protection for Equids from Culicoides biting midges in the United Kingdom?

Treatment

 

Culicoides species

C. obsoletus (Meigen), 1818

C. scoticus Downes and Kettle, 1952

C. dewulfi (Goetghebuer), 1936

C. chiopterus (Meigen), 1830

Obsoletus Group

C. brunnicans (Edwards), 1939

Insecticide-Treated mesh

0 (0; 0)

0 (0; 0)

0 (0; 0)

0 (0; 0)

0 (0; 0)

0 (0; 0)

Untreated mesh

5 (4; 1)

1 (1; 0)

2 (2; 0)

0 (0; 0)

1 (1; 0)

1 (1; 0)

No mesh control

78 (71; 7)

27 (27; 0)

20 (20; 0)

12 (12; 0)

7 (7; 0)

7 (7; 0)