Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of females of two species of tabanid to volatiles in urine of different mammals

Baldacchino, Frédéric; Cadier, J; Porciani, Angélique; Buatois, Bruno; Dormont, Laurent; Jay‐Robert, Pierre

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2915.2012.01022.x

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“…and Hybomitra spp. (Diptera: Tabanidae) in North America and in Europe (Krcmar et al ., ; Mihok & Mulye, ; Baldacchino et al ., ). The synergism between ammonia and phenols demonstrated for Hybomitra spp.…”

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Olfactory and behavioural responses of tabanid horseflies to octenol, phenols and aged horse urine

Baldacchino

Manon

Puech

et al. 2013

Medical Vet Entomology

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Electrophysiological and behavioural responses of females of two tabanid species, Tabanus bromius L. and Atylotus quadrifarius (Loew) (Diptera: Tabanidae), to ammonia, octenol (1-octen-3-ol), phenols and aged horse urine were compared. Electroantennogram (EAG) responses in both species to octenol, 4-methylphenol (4MP), 3-propylphenol (3PP) and a phenol mixture (4MP and 3PP at a ratio of 16 : 1) increased in a dose-dependent fashion. The most effective stimulus was 4MP and synergism between the two phenols may exist. Aged horse urine also elicited strong EAG responses in both species. Using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis, we identified 29 compounds in horse urine, which included, in particular, ketones, fatty alcohols and phenols, among which 4MP was the most abundant component (~ 80%). Trapping experiments were carried out using Nzi traps baited with various odours. Octenol and the phenol mixture in combination with ammonia increased catches of tabanids by 1.8-2.8 times relative to ammonia alone. Aged horse urine increased catches of T. bromius and A. quadrifarius by 2.2 and 4.1 times, respectively. The high attractiveness of aged horse urine, especially for A. quadrifarius, is not likely to derive from 4MP alone, but from the mixture of various active compounds used in host location.

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Olfactory and behavioural responses of tabanid horseflies to octenol, phenols and aged horse urine

Baldacchino

Manon

Puech

et al. 2013

Medical Vet Entomology

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“…Chrysops Hybomitra Browne and Bennett, 1980 Tabanus abactor Philip Moor et al, 1996Fischer 2006 72 Blahó et al, 2013Horváth et al, 2008 e.g. Swynnerton, 1933;Lloyd, 1935Hassanali et al, 1986Bursell et al, 1988;Madubunyi et al, 1996 Canopy trap Krčmar et al, 2006 Canopy trap 6.4 Krčmar and Lajoš, 2011Baldacchino et al 2012Reeves, 1951 e.g. Fallis and Smith, 1964;Nelson, 1965;Knox andHays, 1972 Wilson et al, 1966;DeFoliart and Morris, 1967;Everett and Lancaster Jr., 1968 Hribar et al, 1992;Kristensen and Sommer, 2000;Mihok and Lange, 2012 1-octen-3-ol Vale and Hall, 1985;French and Kline, 1989;Downer and Stoffolano Jr., 2006;Cilek and Olson, 2008 Cilek…”

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Capturing tabanids by traps: Development history, visual and olfactory attractants and future of tabanid trap

Sasaki

2016

Jap. J. Sanit. Zool.

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Tabanids (Diptera: Tabanidae) is one of the most serious pest insect group against both humans and livestock. Tabanids' effects to livestock are transmission of some serious diseases such as bovine leukemia, surra and equine infectious anemia, irritation breeding daily gain and milk secretion loss. Tabanids also transmit Loa loa (Cobbold) to humans. Source control by chemical and mechanical methods has no effect due to the larvae of tabanids living under the soil sparsely. At the present, only trapping of adults is effective for controlling tabanids. Traps for capturing tabanids have been developed in two different ways. Some tabanid traps are diverted from tsetse fly traps in Africa such as Nzi trap, and others are developed for exclusive use in North America, Europe and Japan. The early traps attracted tabanids by their shapes and the visual and olfactory factors as attractant were added to the later traps to capture more flies. I reviewed the history of development on traps for capturing tabanids, visual and olfactory attractants for capturing tabanids and next generations of traps for capturing tabanids in this paper.

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“…The average annual precipitation is 687 mm with a peak during May-June (data were provided by the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service). Ecological studies have shown that horse fl ies are most active at pasture-forest ecotone near their developmental, host-seeking and resting sites (Baldacchino et al, 2013) and so traps were placed on the pasture at 60 m distance and parallel to the forest edge.…”

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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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Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of females of two species of tabanid to volatiles in urine of different mammals

Cited by 26 publications

References 53 publications

Olfactory and behavioural responses of tabanid horseflies to octenol, phenols and aged horse urine

Olfactory and behavioural responses of tabanid horseflies to octenol, phenols and aged horse urine

Capturing tabanids by traps: Development history, visual and olfactory attractants and future of tabanid trap

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

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