New Agar Technique Compared with Sand Flotation for Obtaining Salt Marsh Culicoides mississippiensis Hoffman (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Larvae,
Abstract
Sand flotation was compared with 1% and 2% (wt/v) agar formulations for extracting culicoides mississippiensis Hoffman larvae from marsh soil samples. The 1% agar formulation yielded significantly less (p < 0.001) larvae than the other 2 methods. The 2% agar method produced a greater number and healthier larvae, required less time, was cleaner, and provided a quantitatively equivalent and less variable estimate of the total larval population size than sand flotation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 26, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA146100
Entities
People
- D. A. Focks
- D. L. Kline
- R. H. Roberts