Prevalence of infestation by camels nasal myiasis fly larvae in Al-Diwania city abattoir

Abstract

During the period between the 1st of October (2008) till the 30th of September (2009), (820) heads of camels from both sexes and different ages which were slaughtered at Al-Diwaniya city abattoir were examined to investigate an prevalence infestation of camel nasal miyasis caused by Cephalopina titillater larvae, and studied the relationship between infestation ratio with months of the year, ages and sex. Total percentage for infestation by larvae of Cephalopina titillator were (42.43%), and had been noticed presence of significant differences (p<0.01) in the infestation ratio during the study months. Higher infestation ratio was in January (91.76%) while the lowest ratio was in July (3.70%) . The study showed significant differences for infestation ratio (p<0.01) among age groups, the highest infestation ratio recorded in Age group (13-16 year) which were (57.79%) while the lowest were (25.92%) in (1-4 year). Significant differences (P<0.01) were noticed in infestation ratio between female (51.44%) and male (35.86%) .