Table 1.
Description and collection data from six Culicoides sampling locations in Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
Fig 1.
Light traps evaluated for the collection of Culicoides.
(a) Newly designed 3D-printed LED light trap blueprint and a custom-designed Culicoides sorting-out frame (bottom); (b) trap size comparisons (left to right: MU UV LED, MU Green LED, and BioQuip 2770); and (c) MU UV LED light trap in field operation.
Table 2.
Specifications of 3D-printed LED light traps (MU UV LED and MU Green LED) and standard UV LED light trap (BioQuip 2770) for the comparison of the efficiency for the collection of Culicoides.
Table 3.
Summary of Culicoides midges collected and overall sex–age grading results with three different LED light traps over 12 nights between 26th July and 7th August 2020 in Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
Fig 2.
Box-and-whisker plots of daily number of Culicoides collected with three different LED light traps over 12 nights between 26th July and 7th August 2020 in Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
The total count (a) and each physiological stage count (b–g) are shown. The cross marks in the middle of bars indicate the mean of the collection number per day.
Table 4.
Summary of Culicoides species collected with three different LED light traps over 12 nights between 26th July and 7th August 2020 in Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
Fig 3.
Box-and-whisker plots of the daily total number of the five most abundant Culicoides species collected with three different LED light traps over 12 nights between 26th July and 7th August 2020 in Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand.
The total counts of the five most abundant species are shown. The cross marks in the middle of bars indicate the mean of the collection number per day.