Does <i>Culicoides</i>spp. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Not Suck Human Blood in Riparian Habitat of a National Park

• 作者: Jeng-Tze Yang Ka-Iong Lam Meng-Tieh Yu Tzu-Wen Kuo Ying-Hsi Lin
• 来源期刊: 昆虫学(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: CULICOIDES Human BAIT METHOD Light Trap METHOD Blood Resource
• 年，卷（期）: kcxyw_2017,（3）
• 页码范围: 93-98
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

Is the wild animal conservation result in Taiwan good enough to provide the blood resources for the blood sucking insect and cause the insect behavior changed? Based on the bimonthly investigation of Culicoides sp. in Wuling area, Sheipar National Park, by both human bait method and light trap method, we found that there were totally 13,191 individuals trapped by light trap and collected but no one single Culicoides sp. trapped by human bait during the study period of Wuling Long Term Ecological Research (WLTER) in 2012. Two of the three sites were recorded and reported as the midge attacked the ranger and tourists of Sheipa National Park in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Along with the study of WLTER some wild animals encounter more often than before, especially the bird population in the riparian ecosystem of the mountain river Chi Chia Wan Stream. On the other end, Culicoides sp. preferred to the blood of birds and amphibians as well as mammals according to the article review. So, the effectiveness of blood resource from wild animals may cause the behavior of blood sucking insect like as Culicoides sp. shifted to or returned back to the original and the favorite blood resource.