Fig. 3

Infective third-stage larval (L3) count from grass samples taken adjacent to fecal pats (lower panels) with corresponding daily precipitation and daily mean ground temperature (upper panels) for farm 1. At each sampling time, the six data points correspond to six sampling units (four fecal pats per sampling unit). The x-axis on the lower plots indicates the number of weeks after fecal pat deposition, with sampling dates in parentheses. Each pasture was grazed only once for a 2- to 9-day period. Pasture 3 was not sampled at week 12 because the flags that identified the pats had been removed by wildlife