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Average maximum and minimum hourly temperature recordings inside and outside the shed containing the quarantined animals, for the period of 10 December 2018 to 6 March January 2019 (no recordings were taken over the Christmas period). Light trap counts of female Culicoides are denoted by grey bars, with parous female counts denoted by red bars. The temperature limit to virus replication in midges is 12 C, which is denoted by a dashed line.
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A total of seven parous females were caught over the sampling period (all Obsoletus group) with a maximum of three caught in one 24-h period (Figure 3). For this particular shed, the effect of housing was not to increase upper temperatures but rather the body-heat of the livestock had the effect of moderating lower night-time temperatures (Figure 3).