Horn Flies (Haematobia and Haematobosca)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10443034" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10443034 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818731-9.00021-5" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818731-9.00021-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818731-9.00021-5" target="_blank" >10.1016/B978-0-12-818731-9.00021-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Horn Flies (Haematobia and Haematobosca)
Original language description
The horn/buffalo flies (Haematobia irritans and H. exigua) are small (3-5 mm long) dark grey biting muscid flies. These cosmopolitan hematophagous ectoparasites are closely associated with livestock (cattle and buffalo) and occasionally horses grazing in open pastures and rangeland, in smaller numbers occur also on drylot or indoor animals. Flies spend most of their life on the host and tend to congregate on the back, shoulders, or underbelly. As for most ectoparasites, the damage they inflict can be considered either direct, that caused by their blood-feeding activity, or, in some regions, indirect, as important vectors of livestock pathogens. Persistent blood-feeding of both adult fly sexes irritates livestock and can cause significant production losses. Horn flies are mechanical vectors (e.g., bacteria causing bovine mastitis) and intermediate hosts of nematodes (Stephanofilaria and Parabronema). The effective horn fly populations' reduction is challenging due to several factors related mostly to the biological features of these insects and includes mainly insecticides, trapping, and grazing management; however, insecticide resistance is a problem among these biting flies in several parts of their geographic range. Conditions that fast drying of manure, along with activities of dung beetles also can provide some natural control.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10600 - Biological sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Encyclopedia of Infection and Immunity
ISBN
978-0-12-818731-9
Number of pages of the result
8
Pages from-to
895-902
Number of pages of the book
3428
Publisher name
Elsevier
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
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