| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1974 |
| Authors: | A. M. Burnett, Hays K. L. |
| Journal: | Environmental Entomology |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Pagination: | 515-521 |
| Date Published: | 1974 |
| Keywords: | Activity, Alabama, Behaviour, Chlorotabanus crepuscularis, Hybomitra cincta, Hybomitra sodalis, Leucotabanus annulatus, Tabanidae, Tabanus abdominalis, Tabanus americanus, Tabanus aranti, Tabanus atratus, Tabanus calens, Tabanus coarctatus, Tabanus fairchildi, Tabanus fulvulus, Tabanus gladiator, Tabanus lineola, Tabanus longiusculus, Tabanus maculipennis, Tabanus melanocerus, Tabanus moderator, Tabanus molestus, Tabanus nigripes, Tabanus nigriscens, Tabanus pallidescens, Tabanus petiolatus, Tabanus pumilus, Tabanus sackeni, Tabanus sparus, Tabanus sublongus, Tabanus subsimilis, Tabanus sulcifrons, Tabanus superjumentarius, Tabanus trimaculatus, Tabanus turbidus, Tabanus wiedemanni, USA, Whitneyomyia beatifica |
| Abstract: | Females of species of Tabanus were collected hourly in modified Malaise traps baited with solid carbon dioxide in Alabama in 1970 and 1971. Regression analyses of the numbers of flies collected and the values of various meteorological factors in the ranges observed indicated which factors influenced activity. In order of decreasing influence, these factors were: barometric pressure, temperature, evaporation and evaporation change per hour, total sky radiation change per hour, total sky radiation and wind velocity change per hour, and relative humidity and temperature change per hour. The influence of these factors on activity of the six most abundant species was also determined. Prediction equations are presented and the traps described. |
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