Garcia-Saenz A, McCarter P, Baylis M
Departament de Sanitat i d'Anatomia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Med Vet Entomol. 2011 Mar;25(1):113-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2010.00904.x.
A preliminary study was undertaken to investigate how the number of sheep below a light-suction trap affects the number of female Culicoides obsoletus Meigen (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) caught. As the number of sheep increased from zero to three, the number of midges caught increased, but there appeared to be no further increase when six sheep were used. The lack of increase between three and six sheep is attributable to different activity rates on certain nights, perhaps in response to weather, and suggests, therefore, that catches in light traps increase linearly with sheep numbers, at least for small host numbers.
开展了一项初步研究，以调查低于光诱捕器的绵羊数量如何影响捕获的雌性古蚋（双翅目：蠓科）数量。随着绵羊数量从零增加到三只，捕获的蠓数量增加，但当使用六只绵羊时，捕获数量似乎没有进一步增加。三只到六只绵羊之间捕获量没有增加，这归因于某些夜晚不同的活动率，可能是对天气的反应，因此表明，至少对于少量宿主，光诱捕器中的捕获量随绵羊数量呈线性增加。
