| a preliminary evaluation of a sheep blowfly trap in the western cape. | an insecticide-free sheep blowfly trapping system, utilising a synthetic lure, was evaluated at 4 localities in the western cape. control sites, where no suppression was practised, were identified for each locality. the blowfly population was monitored for 48 hours monthly at each of the localities. five to 7 suppression traps at the respective localities were identified for this purpose. three to 10 traps were set monthly for monitoring in the control areas. trapping resulted in the suppression ... | 2000 | 11205162 |
| flies in the ointment: a morphological and molecular comparison of lucilia cuprina and lucilia sericata (diptera: calliphoridae) in south africa. | complementary nuclear (28s rrna) and mitochondrial (coi) genes were sequenced from blowflies that phenotypically resembled lucilia cuprina (w.), lucilia sericata (meigen) or exhibited characters of both species. the aim was to test a long-held hypothesis that these species hybridize under natural conditions in south africa (ullyett, 1945). blowflies were obtained predominantly from the cape town metropolitan area, but reference samples were acquired for l. sericata from pretoria. several l. cupr ... | 2009 | 19019139 |