Culicoides biting midges are small, haemotophagous insects that play a critical role as vectors in the transmission of bluetongue virus, an orbivirus that adversely affects ruminant livestock. Their ...

Figure 1: Distribution of BTV and Culicoides vectors. The marked changes in the epidemiology of BT do not seem to be caused by biotic factors (for example, pathogen characteristics and host ...

The larva and pupa of Culicoides bambusicola are redescribed and illustrated, including photomicrographies, based on the examination with both Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and phase-contrast ...

In this light-trap survey of the adult Culicoides in Oklahoma 87,174 specimens were examined from 41 stations distributed in the state. Twenty-three species and subspecies are present, including C.

Researchers from the Calcutta-headquartered Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies belonging to the Culicoides genus in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, ...

Horses exposed early in life to an allergen were less likely to react when exposed again later in life, according to a new study of Icelandic horses at Cornell that has implications for human ...

Researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies, 13 of them recorded for the first time in the country, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.