Emergence dynamics of adult Culicoides biting midges at two farms in south-east England

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Total Culicoides collected from each emergence traps

Trap	Female Obsoletus complex	Male C. obsoletus	Male C. scoticus	Female C. chiopterus	Male C. chiopterus	Other species	Total
ON EM1	9056	3162	88	1	1	1	12,309
ON EM2	10,444	5901	12	50	0	0	16,407
ON EM3	15,431	7083	233	11	17	30	22,805
PW EM1	13,808	9984	115	16	1	0	23,935†
PW EM2	3694	2548	19	0	0	0	6261
PW EM3	3290	2109	44	0	0	1	5444
PW EM4	3316	1954	17	1	0	70	5358
PW EM5	2813	712	4	5	0	7	3543‡
Total	61,852	33,453	532	84	19	109	96,062

No Culicoides dewulfi were trapped in any emergence trap
Other species:
ON EM1: 1 female C. brunnicans
ON EM3: 5 female C. pulicaris, 13 male C. pulicaris, 7 female C. punctatus, 2 male C. punctatus, 2 female C. circumscriptus, 1 female C. brunnicans
PW EM3: 1 female C. pulicaris
PW EM4: 39 female C. pulicaris, 30 male C. pulicaris, 1 female C. brunnicans
PW EM5: 6 female C. pulicaris, 1 male C. pulicaris
^† PW EM1: Total includes 11 damaged male Obsoletus group Culicoides
^‡ PW EM5: Total includes two damaged male Obsoletus group Culicoides

ISSN: 1756-3305