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Specificity of a Black Fly, Simulium euryadminiculum Davies, toward its Host, the Common Loon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. K. Lowther  and
D. M. Wood
J. K. Lowther
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec
D. M. Wood
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec Entomology Research Institute, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario
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Abstract

The attraction of large numbers of the ornithophilic black fly, Simulium euryadminiculum Davies, to its host, the common loon, Gavia immer (Brünnich), to the place where the loon skin had been washed, and to a dried museum skin of the loon, is described. The fly was not attracted to museum skins of a pied-billed grebe, common merganser and herring gull. The data suggest a system of olfaction in host location, probably involving volatile, air-borne substances. It is possible that the colour or pattern on the head and neck of the loon serves to attract the fly to this area of the host.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 96 , Issue 6 , June 1964 , pp. 911 - 913
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1964

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