Culicoides biting midges are small, haemotophagous insects that play a critical role as vectors in the transmission of bluetongue virus, an orbivirus that adversely affects ruminant livestock. Their ...

Haemoproteus belopolskyi of blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla, underwent sporogony in wild-caught female biting midges, Culicoides impunctatus, which were experimentally infected by feeding them on ...

A study in Medical and Veterinary Entomology has investigated whether Culicoides biting midges—tiny insects that can carry serious livestock viruses—are being accidentally exported from Africa to ...

In this light-trap survey of the adult Culicoides in Oklahoma 87,174 specimens were examined from 41 stations distributed in the state. Twenty-three species and subspecies are present, including C.

Researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies, 13 of them recorded for the first time in the country, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.