Occurrence of putative Culicoides biting midge vectors (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) inside and outside barns in Germany and factors influencing their activity

Table 5 Males/females of the Obsoletus Group and Pulicaris Complex per month, inside and outside the barns (all study farms)

Month	Inside barns^a		Outside barns^a		Total no. blood-fed females
Month	Obsoletus Group	Pulicaris Complex	Obsoletus Group	Pulicaris Complex	Total no. blood-fed females
January	0/7 (1)	0/0 (0)	0/7 (0)	0/0 (0)	1
February	1/4 (0)	0/0 (0)	0/4 (0)	0/0 (0)	0
March	0/25 (1)	0/2 (0)	1/6 (0)	0/0 (0)	1
April	16/127 (1)	0/4 (0)	26/73 (0)	0/8 (0)	1
May	12/6167 (157)	0/483 (17)	7/1716 (0)	3/147 (0)	174
June	93/1260 (96)	5/1556 (175)	53/1706 (1)	10/1496 (26)	298
July	320/714 (54)	16/1961 (321)	11/382 (1)	12/619 (5)	381
August	320/1559 (216)	24/5519 (301)	27/1094 (9)	36/1941 (55)	581
September	168/1253 (122)	2/256 (28)	45/792 (22)	13/552 (14)	186
October	44/892 (108)	2/216 (13)	10/637 (0)	13/144 (0)	121
November	1/56 (5)	0/11 (2)	1/67 (0)	4/13 (1)	8
December	2/77 (0)	0/4 (0)	0/64 (0)	0/0 (0)	0

^aValues in table are presented as the numbers of male/female Culicoides biting midges, with the total number of blood-fed females in the respective months given in parentheses

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