Fig. 1

Map showing the location of the ten sentinel farms and six weather station locations in the south of the Republic of Ireland. Each numbered red dot (1–10) corresponds with each of the ten sentinel farms studied and each of the six alphabetically labelled green circles (A-F) corresponds with the location of the local weather stations. Seven farms were located in county Cork, the county where Schmallenberg virus was first identified in Ireland in 2012 [16], and one farm each was located in the adjoining counties Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford, respectively