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. 2021 Nov 3;14:564. doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-05059-9

Table 1.

The overall mean ± standard error (SE) of specimens per trap-night and mean from 10 species of Culicoides collected in two different types of traps baited with dry ice and deployed overnight during 240 trap-nights from 2016 to 2018 at the Bob R. Jones Idlewild Research Station near Clinton, LA

CDC trap overall mean Mean no. of specimens captured/trap-night ± SE
C. arb C. big* C. crep C. vill C. deb C. ven C.var C. stel* C. neop C. haem
Black light 17.13 ± 4.51 0.38 ± 0.14 1.12 ± 0.31 A 0.50 ± 0.25 0.07 ± 0.03 2.15 ± 0.54 2.70 ± 1.59 0.54 ± 0.15 9.06 ± 2.68 A 0.28 ± 0.10 0.23 ± 0.08
No light 6.82 ± 1.54 0.20 ± 0.076 0.27 ± 0.09 B 0.13 ± 0.05 0.00 ± 0.00 3.68 ± 1.36 0.11 ± 0.05 0.28 ± 0.08 1.90 ± 0.77 B 0.00 ± 0.00 0.12 ± 0.05

C. arb: C. arboricola, C. big: C. biguttatus, C. crep: C. crepuscularis, C. vill: C. villosipennis, C. deb: C. debilipalpis, C. ven: C. venustus, C. stel: C. stellifer, C. var: C. variipennis, C. neop: C. neopulicaris, C. haem: C. haematopotus

*Values within columns followed by different letters were significantly different (P < 0.05) using the Student t-test for C. big (df = 239, F = 6.81, P = 0.009, n = 120) and for C. stel (df = 239, F = 6.54, P = 0.01, n = 120)