title: Use of odour-baited sticky boards to trap tabanid flies and investigate repellents.
abstract: Tabanid flies were captured in a sheep pasture in Hungary using black plastic boards (30 x 30 cm), coated with an adhesive sheet, which were either unbaited or baited with ethane-ethiol or Swormlure-4. Five species of tabanid were caught, of which Tabanus tergestinus was caught in the greatest number (87% of 192). The sex ratio of T. tergestinus on unbaited boards was not statistically significantly different to equality. However, on baited boards, males were significantly more numerous, probably due to a repellent effect of the odours on female tabanids. Because of the importance of repellents in tabanid control, this result encourages the exploration of a wider range of compounds as tabanid repellents than are used at present. Sticky boards offer a simple technique for trapping both sexes of tabanids, especially males, which are poorly represented in many tabanid traps.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK. mjrh@nhm.ac.uk
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Farkas
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Chainey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera; D005260:Female; D007300:Insect Control; D007302:Insect Repellents; D008297:Male; D009812:Odorants
chemical_list: D007302:Insect Repellents