Table 3. Correlation between climatic variables and the adult black flies Simulium damnosum s.l. counts from Abu-Hamed and Galabat foci during the study periods 2007–2008 and 2009–2010.

Variable	Abu-Hamed		Galabat
	Nady	Kalasecal	Gumaiza	Hilat Khateir
Precipitation	0.489	0.338	0.240	0.096
	(0.015)*	(0.106)	(0.259)	(0.656)
Maximum Temperature	-0.357	-0.256	-0.616	-0.690
	(0.087)	(0.228)	(0.001) *	(0.00) *
Minimum Temperature	0.799	-0.676	-0.585	-0.496
	(0.000)*	(0.000) *	(0.003) *	(0.014)*

The values in the table represent the correlation coefficient r_s and the P-value between brackets

(*) indicate significance