Response of Tabanidae (Diptera) to different natural attractants

Krandčmar, Stjepan; Mikuška, Alma; Merdić, Enrih

doi:10.3376/1081-1710(2006)31[262:rotdtd]2.0.co;2

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“…; catches were simply increased two‐fold as a function of the presence of octenol (Foil & Hribar, 1995). By contrast, experiments with the same canopy trap in Croatia found up to a 51‐fold higher catch of several tabanids with baits consisting of aged animal urines (Krčmar et al , 2005, 2006). Further study of the attraction of tabanids to aged urine and its constituent phenols is clearly warranted.…”

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“…There are, however, several differences in efficacy among groups and species (Gibson & Torr, 1999; IAEA, 2003). Some recent results for the efficacy of octenol are a 1.8‐fold increase for Tabanus nigrovittatus Macquart in box traps with octenol at 3 mg/h (Hayes et al , 1993), a 4.2‐fold increase for Haematopota pluvialis L. in canopy traps at a low, unmeasured rate (Kristensen & Sommer, 2000), a 9.2‐fold increase for Hybomitra lundbecki Lynenborg in Malaise traps at 40 mg/h (Nilssen, 1998), and a 7.7‐fold increase for tabanids in canopy traps at a high, unmeasured rate (Krčmar et al , 2005). Here, octenol at 1–1.5 mg/h increased the catch of several species up to 2.1 times in traps in Africa and North America, and up to 3.6 times on sticky enclosures surrounding traps in Canada.…”

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Tsetse and other biting fly responses to Nzi traps baited with octenol, phenols and acetone

Mihok

Carlson

Ndegwa

2007

Medical Vet Entomology

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Octenol (1-octen-3-ol), acetone, 4-methylphenol, 3-n-propylphenol, and other potential attractants (human urine, stable fly faeces), as well as guiacol, creosol (potential repellents), were tested as baits for biting flies in North America using standard phthalogen blue IF3GM cotton Nzi traps, or similar commercial polyester traps. Baits were tested during the summers of 2001-04 at a residence in Canada and during January-August 2001 at a dairy in the U.S.A. Behaviour in the presence of octenol was also studied by intercepting flies approaching a trap through the use of transparent adhesive film. Analogous bait and/or trap comparisons were conducted in natural settings in June 1996 in Kenya and in September-December 1997 in Ethiopia. In Canada, catches of five of six common tabanids (Tabanus similis Macquart, Tabanus quinquevittatus Wiedemann, Hybomitra lasiophthalma [Macquart], Chrysops univittatus Macquart, Chrysops aberrans Philip) and the stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans L. were increased significantly by 1.2-2.1 times with octenol (1.5 mg/h). Catches of T. quinquevittatus and S. calcitrans were 3.5-3.6 times higher on a sticky enclosure surrounding a trap baited with octenol. No other baits or bait combinations had an effect on trap catches in North America. In Ethiopia, standard Nzi traps baited with a combination of acetone, octenol and cattle urine caught 1.8-9.9 times as many Stomoxys as similarly baited epsilon, pyramidal, NG2G, S3, biconical and canopy traps, in order of decreasing catch. When baits were compared, catches in Nzi traps of six stable fly species, including S. calcitrans, were not affected by octenol (released at approximately 1 mg/h), or cattle urine (140 mg/h), used alone or in combination with acetone (890 mg/h). Acetone alone, however, significantly increased the catches of common Stomoxys such as Stomoxys niger niger Macquart, Stomoxys taeniatus Bigot, and S. calcitrans by 2.4, 1.6 and 1.9 times, respectively. Catches of Glossina pallidipes Austen were increased significantly in traps baited with acetone, urine or octenol, or any combination, relative to those in unbaited traps (1.4-3.6x). Catches of Glossina morsitans submorsitans Newstead were increased significantly by 1.5-1.7 times, but only when baits were used individually. Unlike other studies with East African tsetse, catches of both tsetse species with the complete bait combination (acetone, urine and octenol) did not differ from those in unbaited traps. Experiments with an incomplete ring of electric nets surrounding a Nzi trap, and a new approach using a sticky enclosure made from transparent adhesive film, revealed diverse responses to artificial objects and baits among biting flies. In Kenya, daily trap efficiency estimates for traps baited with either carbon dioxide (6 L/min) or a combination of acetone, cattle urine and octenol were 21-27% for G. pallidipes, 7-36% for Glossina longipennis Corti, 27-33% for S. n. niger, and 19-33% for Stomoxys niger bilineatus Grünberg, assuming 100% electrocution efficiency. Actual trap ...

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Tsetse and other biting fly responses to Nzi traps baited with octenol, phenols and acetone

Mihok

Carlson

Ndegwa

2007

Medical Vet Entomology

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“…The goal was to investigate the chemical basis for the apparent attractiveness of cow urine to some tabanids (Krčmar et al , 2006). As previous tests of several likely compounds were negative (Mihok et al , 2007), current experiments replicated the well‐studied formulation and dispensing system of phenols and octenol used for tsetse, omitting acetone (Torr et al , 1997).…”

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Responses of tabanids to Nzi traps baited with octenol, cow urine and phenols in Canada

Mihok¹,

Mulye²

2010

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

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Cow urine and the two phenols responsible for the attraction of biting flies to cow urine (4-methylphenol, 3-n-propylphenol) were compared with octenol (1-octen-3-ol) as baits for Tabanidae. Relative to an unbaited Nzi trap, catches of the horseflies Hybomitra lasiophthalma (Macquart), Tabanus similis Macquart and Tabanus quinquevittatus Wiedemann (Diptera: Tabanidae) were increased by 1.5-2.6, 1.4-2.0 and 1.4-1.9 times, respectively, whenever a bait included octenol released at either 0.13 mg/h or 1.5 mg/h, regardless of the presence of phenols or urine. Catches were not affected when traps were baited with phenols alone at evaporation rates of 0.38 mg/h (4-methylphenol) and 0.022 mg/h (3-n-propylphenol). Catches of Hybomitra horseflies were increased by 1.5-1.9 times with cow urine and 2.6 times with cow urine + octenol. This bait combination could prove to be particularly useful for Hybomitra horseflies, the common tabanids of northern environments.

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“…The effects of specifi c materials and dye colors (Mihok & Carlson, 2007), as well as different natural and synthetic attractants (Krčmar, 2005;Krčmar et al, 2006Krčmar et al, , 2010, have been studied. According to Egri et al (2012), linearly polarized light attracts host-seeking females, but sensitivity for polarization of light has not been studied at the structural level of the horse fl y eyes and may differ among species (Baldacchino et al, 2014a).…”

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“…Very few studies measuring trap effi ciency with horse fl ies have been completed (Mihok et al, 2006;Mihok & Carslon 2007;Van Hennekeler et al, 2008;Krčmar et al, 2014). Nzi, Box and Canopy traps have been used for catching horse fl ies in different fi eld studies (Krčmar et al, 2006(Krčmar et al, , 2010(Krčmar et al, , 2014Baldacchino et al, 2013), but a comparison and evaluation of trap efficiency has never been tested.…”

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Comparative efficiency of traps for horse fly (Diptera: Tabanidae) survey in riparian oak-ash forests in Danube floodplain

Mikuška¹,

Mlinarić²,

Begović³

et al. 2016

Eur. J. Entomol.

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Abstract. The objective of this work was to evaluate the relative trap effi ciency of the three modifi ed traps baited with 1-octen-3-ol as attractant, Box, Nzi and Canopy, for horse fl y (Tabanidae) survey. Nine traps (three traps per trap type) were tested in 3 × 3 Latin square designs during summer 2011 in riparian oak-ash forests in the Danube fl oodplain of Croatia. Overall, the traps caught 1,986 specimens of 11 horse fl ies species during the study period. The most abundant species caught was Tabanus bromius (58%), followed by Tabanus tergestinus (21%), Tabanus maculicornis (16%), Tabanus sudeticus (2%), Atylotus loewianus (1%) and Tabanus autumnalis (1%). Both the Box traps and the Nzi traps had signifi cantly greater catch effi ciencies than the Canopy traps (β box = 2.47, X 2 = 65.48, df = 1, P < 0.001 and β nzi = 1.54, X 2 = 25.12, df = 1, P < 0.001, respectively). Nzi traps had a catch rate 4.65 (95% CI: 2.55, 8.48) times greater than Canopy traps and Box traps had a catch rate 11.77 (95% CI: 6.48, 21.39) times greater than Canopy traps. Based on Shannon-Wiener diversity indices Nzi traps were better suited for diversity survey and had higher (H' = 1.33) indices than Box (H' = 1.08) or Canopy traps (H' = 1.00).

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Response of Tabanidae (Diptera) to different natural attractants

Cited by 30 publications

References 19 publications

Tsetse and other biting fly responses to Nzi traps baited with octenol, phenols and acetone

Tsetse and other biting fly responses to Nzi traps baited with octenol, phenols and acetone

Responses of tabanids to Nzi traps baited with octenol, cow urine and phenols in Canada

Comparative efficiency of traps for horse fly (Diptera: Tabanidae) survey in riparian oak-ash forests in Danube floodplain

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