| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Authors: | H. Sasaki, Goto M. |
| Journal: | Journal of Rakuno Gakuen University, Natural Science |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Pagination: | 147-150 |
| Date Published: | 1996 |
| Keywords: | Asia, Blood Meals, Deer, Feeding, Horses, Japan, Sheep, Tabanidae, Tabanus nipponicus |
| Abstract: | A total of 4413 individuals of T. nipponicus was collected by CO2-lured, cow-baited and chicken-baited mosquito-net traps and sweeping at 3 pastures in Hokkaido during pasturing periods of 1990 and 1991. Of these, 203 individuals (4.6%) were engorged. The ELISA method was applied to determine the blood meal source and the sources of 44 blood meals (21.7%) were determined. Of these, cattle were the most utilised hosts (39 individuals, 88.6%). Blood from other domestic animals (horses, sheep) was not as common and no wildlife except the sika deer [Cervus nippon] was identified as a host of T. nipponicus. |
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