| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1976 |
| Authors: | P. E. Cobb, Balsbaugh, Jr. E. U. |
| Journal: | Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Pagination: | 514-520 |
| Date Published: | 1976 |
| Keywords: | Cattle, Chrysops aestuans, Chrysops fulvaster, South Dakota, Survey, Tabanidae, Tabanus similis, USA |
| Abstract: | The tabanids of Spink County in South Dakota were surveyed in 1974, because their abundance will probably be affected by the proposed Missouri Basin irrigation scheme, which will divert water from the Missouri River for irrigation through this county. The most numerous species was Tabanus similis Macq., which is the worst tabanid pest of cattle in the area; populations showed 2 seasonal peaks, indicating the possibility of two generations. Chrysops aestuans Wulp, the species most severely affecting man, was the second most abundant. Hybomitra illota (O.-S.) was most abundant at sites consisting of large glacial lakes. Only 2 examples of C. fulvaster O.-S. were trapped. |
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