Open AccessFACTORS DETERMINING THE PREDOMINANCE OF LUCILIA CUPRINA LARVAE IN BLOWFLY STRIKES OF SHEEP IN SOUTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES
Author(s) -
Dallwitz R.,
Roberts J. A.,
Kitching R. L.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1984.tb01940.x
Subject(s) - lucilia cuprina , biology , larva , zoology , lucilia , calliphoridae , ecology , veterinary medicine , medicine
Sheep that were either scouring or carrying recently induced strikes were exposed to flies in the field. In both cases, 99% of mature larvae produced from natural oviposition were Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann). Mean survival from egg to mature larva was only 17% for eggs of this species laid on the scouring sheep, but 70% survived to maturity on the sheep with pre‐existing strikes. Of blowflies landing on the struck sheep 61% were L. cuprina , but this species accounted for 96% of all oviposition by blowflies.