| ticks and biting insects infected with the etiologic agent of lyme disease, borrelia burgdorferi. | members of 18 species of ticks, mosquitoes, horse flies, and deer flies were collected in southeastern connecticut and tested by indirect fluorescent-antibody staining methods for borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of lyme disease. an infection rate of 36.2% (116 tested), recorded for immature ixodes dammini, exceeded positivity values for all other arthropod species. prevalence of infection for hematophagous insects ranged from 2.9% of 105 hybomitra lasiophthalma to 14.3% of seven hybomi ... | 1988 | 3170711 |
| spiroplasmas in the tabanidae. | spiroplasmas were observed in seven species of the family tabanidae (horse flies and deer flies). this is the fifth family of the order diptera now known to harbor spiroplasmas. noncultivable spiroplasmas were seen in the hemolymph of three species of the genus tabanus, and cultivable forms were isolated from the guts of six species in three genera. isolates from t. calens and t. sulcifrons were serologically similar and closely related to a spiroplasma in the lampyrid beetle, ellychnia corrusca ... | 1984 | 6511308 |
| performance of the nzi and other traps for biting flies in north america. | the performance of nzi traps for tabanids (tabanus similis macquart, t. quinquevittatus wiedemann, chrysops aberrans philip, c. univittatus macquart, c. cincticornis walker, hybomitra lasiophthalma (macquart)), stable flies (stomoxys calcitrans linnaeus) (diptera: muscidae) and mosquitoes (aedes) (diptera: culicidae) was investigated at various sites in canada (ontario, alberta) and usa (iowa, florida, louisiana). traps made from selected fabrics, insect nettings and hand-dyed blue cotton were c ... | 2006 | 16923207 |
| tsetse and other biting fly responses to nzi traps baited with octenol, phenols and acetone. | octenol (1-octen-3-ol), acetone, 4-methylphenol, 3-n-propylphenol, and other potential attractants (human urine, stable fly faeces), as well as guiacol, creosol (potential repellents), were tested as baits for biting flies in north america using standard phthalogen blue if3gm cotton nzi traps, or similar commercial polyester traps. baits were tested during the summers of 2001-04 at a residence in canada and during january-august 2001 at a dairy in the u.s.a. behaviour in the presence of octenol ... | 2007 | 17373949 |
| responses of tabanids to nzi traps baited with octenol, cow urine and phenols in canada. | cow urine and the two phenols responsible for the attraction of biting flies to cow urine (4-methylphenol, 3-n-propylphenol) were compared with octenol (1-octen-3-ol) as baits for tabanidae. relative to an unbaited nzi trap, catches of the horseflies hybomitra lasiophthalma (macquart), tabanus similis macquart and tabanus quinquevittatus wiedemann (diptera: tabanidae) were increased by 1.5-2.6, 1.4-2.0 and 1.4-1.9 times, respectively, whenever a bait included octenol released at either 0.13 mg/h ... | 2010 | 20572930 |
| synergism between ammonia and phenols for hybomitra tabanids in northern and temperate canada. | baits for tabanids (diptera: tabanidae) were tested in the northwest territories (60 °n) and ontario (45 °n) using nzi traps. tests targeted ammonia, phenols/cow urine and octenol. about 200 000 tabanids were captured in 15 experiments with a maximum capture of 4182 in one trap in 1 day. in the northwest territories, phenols, urine and octenol were effective single baits for only some species. at both locations, adding ammonia to an unbaited or an octenol-baited trap had no effect on catches. by ... | 2011 | 22150639 |
| ammonia as an attractant for adult hybomitra lasiophthalma (diptera: tabanidae). | ammonia and carbon dioxide were evaluated as attractants in canopy traps for hybomitra lasiophthalma (macquart). ammonia-baited traps collected 2.5 times as many flies as did unbaited traps (33.27 versus 12.93 per trap per day). over 45 times as many flies were captured in carbon dioxide-baited traps as in unbaited traps (1,630.64 versus 35.82 per trap per day). both ammonia and carbon dioxide are effective attractants for h. lasiophthalma. | 1992 | 1495056 |
| seasonal parous rates in hybomitra lasiophthalma (diptera: tabanidae). | | 1971 | 5157838 |