| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1977 |
| Authors: | C. Sheppard, Wilson B. H. |
| Journal: | Environmental Entomology |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Pagination: | 781-782 |
| Date Published: | 1977 |
| Keywords: | Behaviour, Louisiana, Tabanidae, Tabanus fuscicostatus, Tabanus lineola, USA |
| Abstract: | Host-seeking activity by female tabanids was measured in wooded areas, and in open areas and pastures near woods by trapping blood-meal seeking tabanid females, collections from a bait animal, and observation of fluorescent marked flies. Studies were conducted in 3 areas of south Louisiana during the summers of 1973-74. The principal species collected were Tabanus fuscicostatus Hine and T. lineola F. Host-seeking activity was significantly higher in open areas within 130 m of woods than 15-18 m or more into the woods or 237 m or more from the edge of the wood, in the open. |
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