Bluetongue and Douglas virus activity in New South Wales in 1989: further evidence for long-distance dispersal of the biting midge Culicoides brevitarsis

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 197-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
MP WARD
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Long Distance Dispersal ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Biting Midge ◽  
Virus Activity ◽  
South Wales

scholarly journals The biting midge problem in Tweed Shire, New South Wales.

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Watson ◽  
S J Watson
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Biting Midge ◽  
South Wales

The New South Wales Air Ambulance

1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (695) ◽  
pp. 956
Author(s):  
Nancy-Bird Walton
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
First Year ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Air Ambulance ◽  
Good Friday ◽  
The Road ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Specialist Treatment ◽  
On The Road

The Air Ambulance of New South Wales came into operation on Good Friday 1967. Less than sixteen months later as I write it has carried 2348 patients in 807 flights. Four hundred and eleven of these patients have been emergencies and it is highly probable that most of them would not have survived a long distance road journey. With few exceptions all patients have been sent in by country doctors for specialist treatment in the metropolitan area. Introduced as an Air Arm to the excellent road ambulance service it was intended to avoid the road journeys for distances of more than 175 miles. In the first year it saved that service 932 760 road miles. The time that patients would have spent on the road was 16 201 hours, this was reduced by air to 3 094 hours. It is hardly necessary to add what this means to a sick or injured person. Although deeply unconscious and in a state of shock patients have been transported without their condition deteriorating.

Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) and Arbo virus Activity on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, in 1985–1988

1991 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 796-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Russell ◽  
Michael J. Cloonan ◽  
Peter J. Wells ◽  
Trevor G. Vale
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
Virus Activity ◽  
South Wales

ROSS RIVER VIRUS ACTIVITY ALONG THE SOUTH COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 701-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
MJ Cloonan ◽  
BJ O'Neill ◽  
TG Vale ◽  
IW Carter ◽  
JE Williams
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Ross River Virus ◽  
The South ◽  
Virus Activity ◽  
South Wales

Migrating moths collected in tower-mounted light traps in northern New South Wales, Australia: influence of local and synoptic weather

1994 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.C. Gregg ◽  
G.P. Fitt ◽  
M. Coombs ◽  
G.S. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
Pest Species ◽  
Light Traps ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Synoptic Weather ◽  
South Wales

AbstractCatches of moths in tower-mounted light traps in northern New South Wales were analysed in relation to local and synoptic weather. Catches were correlated with windspeed, relative humidity and possibly rainfall. No correlations were obtained with temperature or moon phase. Catches were more likely to occur when winds were from the east, and were associated with wind shifts. There was a significant association with the passage of depressions or troughs, but not cold fronts. The traps were considered to be poor indicators of migration associated with fronts, because these were accompanied by high winds in which trap efficiency was reduced. Stepwise multiple regressions using temperature, relative humidity, rainfall and windspeed accounted for only about 25% of the variance, much lower than in comparable studies with ground level light traps. These results are thought to indicate that the trap catches were reflecting long-distance migration, which was usually associated with disturbed weather. Back tracking with upper wind data was used to define probable sources of moths. In the spring and early summer, these sources were predominantly to the north and west of the traps, in semi-arid pastoral and subhumid cropping zones. In the late summer and autumn they were predominantly to the south and east, in the humid pastoral and forest zone. These results are discussed in relation to the migratory strategies of several important agricultural pest species.

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