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Table 1 Total numbers of Culicoides spp. collected using drop trap sampling on two breeds of sheep and from light-suction trap controls (Trial 1)

From: Sheep breed and shearing influences attraction and blood-feeding behaviour of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) on a UK farm

Trap

Genus/Subgenus/Species

Total Culicoides spp.

Subgenus Avaritia females

C. obsoletus males

C. scoticus males

C. dewulfi males

C. chiopterus males

Cross-breed (n = 112)

8381

8247

20

7

1

1

Pure-breed (n = 112)

6483

6364

34

10

1

1

Light-suction trap (n = 22)

1287

1103

7

19

4

1

Total

16,151

15,714

61

36

6

3