In Vitro Colonization of the Sheep Biting Louse,Bovicola ovis
- 15 July 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 63 (4) , 1196-1197
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/63.4.1196
Abstract
After we had developed procedures for colonizing the goat biting lice, Bovicola crassipes (Redow) and B. limbata (Gervais), apart from their natural host (goats) (Hopkins and Chamberlain 1969), we attempted to determine whether the sheep biting louse, B. ovis (Schrank) could be similarly colonized. This pest is worldwide in its distribution (Roberts 1952), feeds on debris on the skin of sheep, and is of economic importance because the “wool of infested flocks becomes ragged and inferior in quality” (Agricultural Research Administration 1951).Keywords
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